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meson-build-system uses 'patchelf' which fails on armhf-linux etc

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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Cc: 31971 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31971: meson-build-system uses 'patchelf' which fails on
 armhf-linux etc
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 05:07:05 -0400

Hi Marius,

Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com> writes:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org> writes:
>
>> 'meson-build-system' includes 'patchelf' as an implicit input for all
>> packages that use it, and uses it from its 'fix-runpath' phase,
>> sometimes directly and sometimes via (guix build rpath).
>>
>> 'patchelf' is a nasty hack which seems to only work on Intel-based
>> systems.  It certainly doesn't work on 'mips64el-linux', and when I last
>> investigated it seemed hard to fix this.  As far as I can tell, it has
>> never built successfully on 'armhf-linux' either:
>>
>>   https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/patchelf-0.8.armhf-linux/all
>>
>> I don't know about 'aarch64-linux'.
>>
>> Given that 'meson-build-system' is seeing increased usage in some
>> important packages, e.g. 'libinput' and several GNOME packages, this is
>> becoming an increasingly serious problem for non-Intel platforms.
>
> Note that this is already fixed on 'core-updates', with commits
> 3cc9a8a13..800564020.  See <https://bugs.gnu.org/31208>.

I believe you're mistaken.  Those commits eliminated one of the uses of
'patchelf' in meson-build-system, but there still remains a call to
'augment-rpath' which uses patchelf, and patchelf is still added as an
implicit input.

     Thanks,
       Mark

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