clone 546626 -1
reassign -1 perl 5.10.1-1
retitle -1 ExtUtils::LibList unconditionally chooses libfoo_s.a over libfoo.a
severity -1 normal
tag 546626 patch
thanks
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 08:47:32PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Package: libgtk2-mozembed-perl
> Version: 0.08-2
> Severity: important
> User: debian-p...@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: perl-5.10.1-transition
>
> This package fails to build with Perl 5.10.1 (currently in experimental.)
> /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error:
> blib/arch/auto/Gtk2/MozEmbed/MozEmbed.so: undefined symbol: XPCOMGlueStartup
> It boils down to this:
>
> % perl -MExtUtils::Liblist -E 'say "$]: " .
> (ExtUtils::Liblist->ext("-L/usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-1.9/sdk/lib
> -lxpcomglue"))[0]'
> 5.010000: -L/usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-1.9/sdk/lib -lxpcomglue
> 5.010001: -L/usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-1.9/sdk/lib -lxpcomglue_s
> which is due to this change in ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.45_01:
> } elsif (-f ($fullname="$thispth/lib${thislib}_s$Config_libext")
> - && (! $Config{'archname'} =~ /RM\d\d\d-svr4/)
> + && ($Config{'archname'} !~ /RM\d\d\d-svr4/)
> && ($thislib .= "_s") ){ # we must explicitly use _s version
> So, ExtUtils::LibList now prefers the _s variant as it was apparently
> meant to do earlier too but didn't (because '!' has a stronger precedence
> than '=~', so (! $Config{'archname'} =~ /RM\d\d\d-svr4/) was never true).
I believe the intended effect is to support systems where libfoo_s.a is
the shared version of libfoo.a, and this conflicts with the way xulrunner
names its libraries.
I'm cloning a bug against perl; this needs to be discussed upstream, and
it would be nice to have at least a way to override the above behaviour.
The attached (ugly) workaround makes the libgtk2-mozembed-perl package
build for me.
--
Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 14317f6..9681a02 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@ build-stamp: $(QUILT_STAMPFN)
dh --after dh_auto_test build
touch $@
+# workaround for #546626
+override_dh_auto_configure:
+ dh_auto_configure
+ perl -pi -e s/xpcomglue_s/xpcomglue/g Makefile
+
clean: unpatch
dh $@
