[aur-general] Bug in perl-text-bibtext build script for x86_64 platform
AUR -- I've sent a message to the package maintainer about this, but it has been a while since there has been an update, and so I wanted to send something here too for comment and archival purposes. At the moment, the perl-text-bibtex package fails on x86_64 systems because it tries to link libraries built without -fPIC to object files built with -fPIC. On x86_64 machines, when building the perl-text-bibtex package, it is necessary to add: -fPIC to the btparse compiler flags before running "make". That is, the PKGBUILD should... (1) Download Text::BibTeX from CPAN (2) Run "perl Makefile.PL", which will fetch a btparse distribution and untar it into a directory that it symlinks to "btparse" (3) Change to "btparse" and add "-fPIC" to CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, and CXXFLAGS in the Makefile and src/Makefile files (4) Change back to the Text::BibTeX root and run "make" Otherwise, the linker will complain because the Perl libraries will be built with -fPIC and the btparse libraries will not be... so they'll be incompatible for linking. ALTERNATIVELY, the PKGBUILD could... (1) Download a btparse distribution and untar it into directory "A" (creating "A/btparse-0.35/") (2) Modify A/btparse-0.35/Makefile and A/btparse-0.35/src/Makefile as described above (3) Download the Text::BibTeX distribution from CPAN and also untar it into directory "A" (creating A/Text-BibTeX-0.38/") (4) complete the Text::BibTeX installation as usual (it will find the btparse distribution that shares a parent directory with it) Otherwise, perl-text-bibtex fails to build on x86_64 systems. --Ted
Hi Ted, Thanks for this. I actually found a PKGBUILD for version 0.38 on my computer dating from last June which obviously I had forgotten to upload to AUR :( Although the C*FLAGS with -fPIC are set globally in there, it builds and works just fine on my x86_64 system. I have updated it on AUR yesterday. Can you test it please? If your problem persists I will try to follow your suggestion. I am actually very interested in having this in AUR, since it is a dependency of Biber (http://biblatex-biber.sf.net), of which I am a developer. It will be officially released next week-end, but someone else put in in AUR already long ago (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27998) ;) Best, F On 08/02/2010 20:41, Ted Pavlic wrote:
AUR --
I've sent a message to the package maintainer about this, but it has been a while since there has been an update, and so I wanted to send something here too for comment and archival purposes. At the moment, the perl-text-bibtex package fails on x86_64 systems because it tries to link libraries built without -fPIC to object files built with -fPIC.
On x86_64 machines, when building the perl-text-bibtex package, it is necessary to add:
-fPIC
to the btparse compiler flags before running "make". That is, the PKGBUILD should...
(1) Download Text::BibTeX from CPAN (2) Run "perl Makefile.PL", which will fetch a btparse distribution and untar it into a directory that it symlinks to "btparse" (3) Change to "btparse" and add "-fPIC" to CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, and CXXFLAGS in the Makefile and src/Makefile files (4) Change back to the Text::BibTeX root and run "make"
Otherwise, the linker will complain because the Perl libraries will be built with -fPIC and the btparse libraries will not be... so they'll be incompatible for linking.
ALTERNATIVELY, the PKGBUILD could...
(1) Download a btparse distribution and untar it into directory "A" (creating "A/btparse-0.35/") (2) Modify A/btparse-0.35/Makefile and A/btparse-0.35/src/Makefile as described above (3) Download the Text::BibTeX distribution from CPAN and also untar it into directory "A" (creating A/Text-BibTeX-0.38/") (4) complete the Text::BibTeX installation as usual (it will find the btparse distribution that shares a parent directory with it)
Otherwise, perl-text-bibtex fails to build on x86_64 systems.
--Ted
Firmicus --
Thanks for this. I actually found a PKGBUILD for version 0.38 on my computer dating from last June which obviously I had forgotten to upload to AUR :( Although the C*FLAGS with -fPIC are set globally in there, it builds and works just fine on my x86_64 system. I have updated it on AUR yesterday. Can you test it please? If your problem persists I will try to follow your suggestion.
The version on AUR seems to still be for 0.37 (and I still get the build error, pasted below). Did you mean to attach an updated PKGBUILD? Thanks -- Ted The error (which is fixed by adding -fPIC to Makefiles in btparse): ===== Running Mkbootstrap for Text::BibTeX () chmod 644 BibTeX.bs rm -f blib/arch/auto/Text/BibTeX/BibTeX.so cc -shared -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector BibTeX.o btxs_support.o -o blib/arch/auto/Text/BibTeX/BibTeX.so btparse/src/.libs/libbtparse.a\ \ /usr/bin/ld: btparse/src/.libs/libbtparse.a(input.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.8' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC btparse/src/.libs/libbtparse.a: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [blib/arch/auto/Text/BibTeX/BibTeX.so] Error 1 ==> ERROR: Build Failed. =====
I am actually very interested in having this in AUR, since it is a dependency of Biber (http://biblatex-biber.sf.net), of which I am a developer. It will be officially released next week-end, but someone else put in in AUR already long ago (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27998) ;)
Best, F
On 08/02/2010 20:41, Ted Pavlic wrote:
AUR --
I've sent a message to the package maintainer about this, but it has been a while since there has been an update, and so I wanted to send something here too for comment and archival purposes. At the moment, the perl-text-bibtex package fails on x86_64 systems because it tries to link libraries built without -fPIC to object files built with -fPIC.
On x86_64 machines, when building the perl-text-bibtex package, it is necessary to add:
-fPIC
to the btparse compiler flags before running "make". That is, the PKGBUILD should...
(1) Download Text::BibTeX from CPAN (2) Run "perl Makefile.PL", which will fetch a btparse distribution and untar it into a directory that it symlinks to "btparse" (3) Change to "btparse" and add "-fPIC" to CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, and CXXFLAGS in the Makefile and src/Makefile files (4) Change back to the Text::BibTeX root and run "make"
Otherwise, the linker will complain because the Perl libraries will be built with -fPIC and the btparse libraries will not be... so they'll be incompatible for linking.
ALTERNATIVELY, the PKGBUILD could...
(1) Download a btparse distribution and untar it into directory "A" (creating "A/btparse-0.35/") (2) Modify A/btparse-0.35/Makefile and A/btparse-0.35/src/Makefile as described above (3) Download the Text::BibTeX distribution from CPAN and also untar it into directory "A" (creating A/Text-BibTeX-0.38/") (4) complete the Text::BibTeX installation as usual (it will find the btparse distribution that shares a parent directory with it)
Otherwise, perl-text-bibtex fails to build on x86_64 systems.
--Ted
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Ted Pavlic
On 10/02/2010 18:42, Ted Pavlic wrote:
Firmicus --
Thanks for this. I actually found a PKGBUILD for version 0.38 on my computer dating from last June which obviously I had forgotten to upload to AUR :( Although the C*FLAGS with -fPIC are set globally in there, it builds and works just fine on my x86_64 system. I have updated it on AUR yesterday. Can you test it please? If your problem persists I will try to follow your suggestion.
The version on AUR seems to still be for 0.37 (and I still get the build error, pasted below). Did you mean to attach an updated PKGBUILD?
No, I really uploaded my PKGBUILD for 0.38 to AUR yesterday using aurup. Seems it never made it to the server. Will try again, but see attachment now. F
Am 10.02.2010 22:26, schrieb Firmicus:
On 10/02/2010 18:42, Ted Pavlic wrote:
Firmicus --
Thanks for this. I actually found a PKGBUILD for version 0.38 on my computer dating from last June which obviously I had forgotten to upload to AUR :( Although the C*FLAGS with -fPIC are set globally in there, it builds and works just fine on my x86_64 system. I have updated it on AUR yesterday. Can you test it please? If your problem persists I will try to follow your suggestion.
The version on AUR seems to still be for 0.37 (and I still get the build error, pasted below). Did you mean to attach an updated PKGBUILD?
No, I really uploaded my PKGBUILD for 0.38 to AUR yesterday using aurup. Seems it never made it to the server. Will try again, but see attachment now.
F
Hello, aurup does not seem to work anymore. Try aurploader (from Xyne) or use the AUR webinterface for uploading. Regards Stefan
On 11/02/2010 11:54, Stefan Husmann wrote:
aurup does not seem to work anymore. Try aurploader (from Xyne) or use the AUR webinterface for uploading.
All right, thanks for that info! F
aurup does not seem to work anymore. Try aurploader (from Xyne) or use the AUR webinterface for uploading.
All right, thanks for that info!
I can verify that 0.38-1 is now available on AUR.
I can also verify that the new PKGBUILD seems to complete the build
with no errors on my system! So that's excellent.
Thanks --
Ted
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Ted Pavlic
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Firmicus
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Ted Pavlic