[aur-general] LDFLAGS question

[Allan McRae]

Ranguvar wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 19:27, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 
>> bardo wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all.
>>> Recently I've been having fun with the latest pulseaudio quirk: it
>>> doesn't build because of the --as-needed flag in linking. I don't
>>> understand linking in depth, but as I understood it there's some
>>> dependency cycle that gets triggered by the aforementioned ld flag.
>>> However this doesn't happen when building in a chroot, where the
>>> package builds fine.
>>>
>>> It isn't the only package where it happens, and I have a handful of
>>> questions about the correct way to handle this.
>>>
>>> 1. If something like this happens, is it an upstream bug?
>>> 2. If it builds fine in a chroot there's obviously a software that
>>> triggers the bug, does it mean I am missing a dependency?
>>> 3. If a package builds inside a chroot but not outside, should it be
>>> changed in such a way that it builds everywhere regardless of the
>>> changes that are to be made? Or should it be left as it is, and
>>> related bugs closed with "build it in a chroot"?
>>> 4. What does the absence of the ld flag imply in practical terms? Is
>>> it just a "nice to have" or has it some real implications?
>>>
>>>
>> It is probably an addition dep (optional) that is being detected on your
>> system and causing the failure.  Personally, I would build in a chroot and
>> ignore the issue.  There are plenty of packages that should only be built in
>> a chroot due to issues similar to this and _ALL_ packages should be built in
>> one anyway.
>>
>> Allan
>>
> 
> Shouldn't a PKGBUILD try to cover all potential normal Arch setups, though?
> 
> If it is known that a package conflicts with the build, and it can't be
> traced to the
> individual package so it can be added in conflicts() (or we may not want it
> there),
> then I think the PKGBUILD should be modified to work in all common
> scenarios.


I looks like pulse-audio will link to itself and that causes issues with 
--as-needed.  Heimdal had (has?) the same issue so had something like 
this in the PKGBUILD:

[ -e /usr/lib/libasn1.so ] && echo "## remove old heimdal pkg first ##" 
&& return 1

If pulse-audio only fails to build when pulse-audio is present, a line 
like that in the PKGBUILD will solve all problems.  Or just a comment at 
the top like the current heimdal package:

#
### Attention: remove old pkg before building - it links against itself! ###
#

Allan