gnulib m4/threadlib.m4 bug crashing package tests
Brian Inglis
Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca
Fri Nov 26 17:34:28 GMT 2021
On 2021-11-26 06:08, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 11/25/2021 1:25 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> Add gl_cv_have_weak=no to cygconf?
>
> Are you suggesting maintainers should do this, or are you talking about
> patching cygport, like this:
>
> diff --git a/cygclass/autotools.cygclass b/cygclass/autotools.cygclass
> index 712f437..8b6fdde 100644
> --- a/cygclass/autotools.cygclass
> +++ b/cygclass/autotools.cygclass
> @@ -735,6 +735,14 @@ cygconf() {
> export ac_cv_func_mmap_fixed_mapped=yes ;;
> esac
>
> + # Some versions of gnulib's threadlib.m4:gl_WEAK_SYMBOLS
> + # incorrectly report that Cygwin supports weak symbols. See
> + #
> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2021-September/041587.html.
> + case ${CHOST} in
> + *-*-cygwin*)
> + export gl_cv_have_weak=no ;;
> + esac
> +
> # packages that use intltool w/o glib-gettext get this wrong
> export DATADIRNAME="share"
Normally in a regular/autotools build the maintainer appends these
overrides to:
CYGCONF_ARGS=...gl_cv_have_weak=guessing\ no
or to:
src_compile() {
cd ${S}
cygautoreconf
cd ${B}
cygconf ... gl_cv_have_weak=guessing\ no
cygmake
}
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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