On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 12:22:45PM -0600, Ron Olson wrote: > Hi all- > > Since Apple released Swift 5.9 it requires a previous version of Swift to > build; it seems it can’t be built from scratch anymore just using the source. > To make it more complicated, during compiling it’s expected that certain > libraries are available specifically at /usr/lib/swift. In a container, I can > symlink the necessary directory with “ln -s > /usr/libexec/swift/5.8.1/lib/swift /usr/lib/swift” and Swift builds fine. > > This doesn’t work with Mock and I’m trying to think of a way to build Swift > without introducing more patches; I’ve been able to create a patch that > changes the directory it’s looking for, but at the cost of compile errors > later on. > > Might anyone have a suggestion about what can be done within mock to minimize > the changes needed to the source? I’m really hoping to avoid adding any more > patches as I feel there’s already too many (8!) just to make it build > successfully.
An LD_PRELOAD hack perhaps? Ugly but it would avoid source changes. I think the best plan is to just fix the source however ... Can't you persuade them to at least make $libdir configurable during the build? Rich. > I was wondering if I could submit a newer version of 5.8.1 with the symlink > as part of the rpm so that it would be available going forward. This seems > like the “safest” option, but before doing that I was wondering if there was > a specific thing that allows this in Mock that I’m just not aware of. > > Thanks for any info! > > Ron > -- > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
