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

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31971: closed (meson-build-system uses 'patchelf' which fails
 on armhf-linux etc)
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 20:42:02 +0000

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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: meson-build-system uses 'patchelf' which fails on armhf-linux etc
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:50:53 -0400

'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.

      Mark

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
Cc: 31971-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31971: meson-build-system uses 'patchelf' which fails on
 armhf-linux etc
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 21:41:36 +0100

Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org> skribis:

> '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).

Since commit bf91e6835d21e3bd7b49bb85b40f61389604c6f7
‘meson-build-system’ no longer relies on PatchELF.

Closing!

Ludo’.

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