Bug #122634 for Alien-libtermkey: Unnecessary dependency on libtool when using system library

Sat Jul 29 06:20:33 2017 corion [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

Fails to install on Debian 9 (Stretch)

With libunibilium installed, this module fails to install with: Looking for pkg-config unibilium... found OS unsupported - unable to find GNU libtool I would assume that Alien::libtermkey includes everything that is needed to build the bundled libtermkey. Also, after apt-get install libtermkey-dev the module still fails with Looking for pkg-config unibilium... found OS unsupported - unable to find GNU libtool I would expect the module here to recognize that we won't need its bundled version and thus install. This prevents installation of Tickit ...

Sat Jul 29 07:29:49 2017 leonerd-cpan [...] leonerd.org.uk - Correspondence added

On Sat Jul 29 06:20:33 2017, CORION wrote: Show quoted text

> With libunibilium installed, this module fails to install with: > > Looking for pkg-config unibilium... found > OS unsupported - unable to find GNU libtool > > I would assume that Alien::libtermkey includes everything that is > needed to build the bundled libtermkey.

Well it has the source, sure, but it still needs the actual build tools on the platform in question - gcc, make, libtool, etc.. Show quoted text

> Also, after > > apt-get install libtermkey-dev > > the module still fails with > > Looking for pkg-config unibilium... found > OS unsupported - unable to find GNU libtool > > I would expect the module here to recognize that we won't need its > bundled version and > thus install.

Ah now that's a good point. If it's going to use the pkg-config built version it won't need the libtool itself to build it. I should fix that. -- Paul Evans

Sat Jul 29 07:29:50 2017 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Sat Jul 29 07:30:34 2017 leonerd-cpan [...] leonerd.org.uk - Subject changed from 'Fails to install on Debian 9 (Stretch)' to 'Unnecessary dependency on libtool when using system library'

Sat Jul 29 07:35:29 2017 corion [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #122634] Fails to install on Debian 9 (Stretch)
Date:	Sat, 29 Jul 2017 13:34:52 +0200
To:	bug-Alien-libtermkey [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Max Maischein <corion [...] cpan.org>

Hello Paul, Show quoted text

>> With libunibilium installed, this module fails to install with: >> >> Looking for pkg-config unibilium... found >> OS unsupported - unable to find GNU libtool >> >> I would assume that Alien::libtermkey includes everything that is >> needed to build the bundled libtermkey.

> > Well it has the source, sure, but it still needs the actual build tools on the platform in question - gcc, make, libtool, etc..

Aaah - so this is where I misunderstood what libtool is about. I thought it was another incarnation of pkg-config. So the only valid point in my report is that it doesn't recognize if the library is already available on a system. Show quoted text

>> after >> >> apt-get install libtermkey-dev >> >> the module still fails with >> >> Looking for pkg-config unibilium... found >> OS unsupported - unable to find GNU libtool >> >> I would expect the module here to recognize that we won't need its >> bundled version and >> thus install.

> > Ah now that's a good point. If it's going to use the pkg-config built version it won't need the libtool itself to build it. I should fix that. >

Thanks, -max

Sat Jul 29 08:03:26 2017 leonerd-cpan [...] leonerd.org.uk - Correspondence added

On Sat Jul 29 07:35:29 2017, CORION wrote: Show quoted text

> Aaah - so this is where I misunderstood what libtool is about. I > thought > it was another incarnation of pkg-config.

In brief: libtool is a sort of portability wrapper around the various system C compilers, linkers, and other tools required for building a library. You invoke libtool in a standard "pretend it's the GNU ELF toolchain" way, and it translates for the system in question. It massively simplifies making portable Makefiles. Show quoted text

> > Ah now that's a good point. If it's going to use the pkg-config built > > version it won't need the libtool itself to build it. I should fix > > that.

Now fixed in 0.20, on its way to CPAN -- Paul Evans

Sat Jul 29 08:03:26 2017 leonerd-cpan [...] leonerd.org.uk - Status changed from 'open' to 'patched'

Sat Jul 29 08:04:33 2017 leonerd-cpan [...] leonerd.org.uk - Correspondence added

On Sat Jul 29 08:03:26 2017, PEVANS wrote: Show quoted text

> Now fixed in 0.20, on its way to CPAN

Er, 0.19. -- Paul Evans