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

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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>, 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 01:34:01 +0200

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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>.

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