On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 05:22:49PM +0200, Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras wrote:
> On 5/14/20 9:11 PM, Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras wrote:
> > On 5/14/20 8:47 PM, Geert Stappers wrote:
> >> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 07:27:26PM +0200, Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I have a problem with reprotest on a python package I am building
> >>> and was recently made aware of this mailinglist.
> >>>
> >>> Can anyone tell me what's going on, how I can further debug my issue or
> >>> ideally how I should fix the issue of a failing reprotest-kernel build?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> >>> Subject: Problem with reprotest-kernel
> >>> Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 15:44:21 +0200
> >>> From: Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras <dev...@fortysixandtwo.eu>
> >>> To: debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org
> >>>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I need some help with a failing reprotest-kernel (other reprotest works)
> >>> build (both on CI and locally). My package python3-pyzbar provides
> >>> bindings for libzbar0.
> >>> The failure occurs while running the build-time tests for
> >>> build-experiment-1.
> >>>
> >>> Effectively the ImportError is raised here:
> >>> ctypes.util.find_library('zbar') returns None in build-experiment-1
> >>> (testbed still works).
> >>
> >> My first impression would be a missing build dependency.
> >>
> >
> > Maybe I am missing something obvious, but why would the build (and the
> > failing test) succeed in the testbed if a dependency were missing?
> >
>
> After some further investigation, I have figured out a solution.
> Changing the build dependency to the -dev package (from libzbar0 to
> libzbar-dev) has fixed the failing reprotest-kernel job. I tried this
> out after reading that ctypes.util.find_library is usually used to
> lookup build-time dependencies rather than run-time dependencies.
>
> Local builds and other reprotest variations work fine without the -dev
> package. Can someone share some insight into why reprotest-kernel needs
> the -dev package?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Can someone share some insight into why reprotest-kernel needs the -dev
> package?
} Can someone share some insight into why building reprotest-kernel needs the
-dev package?
-dev is a naming convention
Those packages contain the development files. (stuff that the compiler needs)
Regards
Geert Stappers
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