Federico Beffa <be...@ieee.org> skribis: > This package, up to now, is the only one experiencing some > side-effects from the gobject-introspection patch that we adopted from > nix and which installs the full path name of shared libraries in > .typelib and .gir files. > > The side-effect here is that some tests fail because: > > * they are executed before installation (solvable by swapping 'check > and 'install phases) and
That’s not a very good sign though. In general, it should be possible to run tests before installation. > * because it makes use of libtool convenience libraries (libraries > which are only intermediate steps and are not installed). This is > implemented by specifying a fake installation directory called > "/nowhere" which, of course, does not exists. This is the error > message: > > /tmp/nix-build-libpeas-1.12.1.drv-0/libpeas-1.12.1/tests/libpeas/.libs/extension-c:11955): > libpeas-ERROR **: Unhandled warning: (null): Failed to load shared > library '/nowhere/libintrospection-1.0.so.0' referenced by the > typelib: /nowhere/libintrospection-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object > file: No such file or directory Does it mean that it’s trying to dlopen a convenience library? This shouldn’t work anyway, right? Thanks for investigating! Ludo’.
