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tests/channels.scm: Test failures building on Debian i386 or armhf with libgit2-dev 1.0.1
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Message #17 received at 44827 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
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On 2020-11-27, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant <at> debian.org> skribis:
>> On 2020-11-26, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>> In particular, Guile-Git 0.4.0 has this thing compile-time check to make
>>> sure it matches the ABI of the underlying libgit2 version (0.28 or 1.0):
>>>
>>> https://gitlab.com/guile-git/guile-git/-/commit/2b4d077c6f55648f42af31ae783ca4d8c1c5f1de
>>>
>>> So if you change libgit2 versions, you need to rebuild Guile-Git.
>>
>> Oh, this will be fun to keep track of in debian... :/ :)
>
> Note that the problem is the same for packages written in C since it’s
> an ABI change in libgit2. (Except that in C perhaps you get a SONAME
> mismatch at load time rather than an error at run time…)
>
>> Yeah, the guile-git was built with the older 0.28 version of libgit2-dev
>> (although also with all the architectures).
>>
>> Interestingly enough, guix pull completely fails with the older
>> libgit2-dev version installed, but installing the new version it works
>> fine.
>>
>> I'll build a newer guile-git version and force it to use the newer
>> libgit2-dev package, and see if that fixes the issues.
>>
>> Then I'll have to come up with complicated versioned dependencies to
>> ensure it keeps working in Debian and it becomes detectable when it
>> needs to be rebuilt...
>
> Heheh. Let me know how it goes!
Rebuilding guile-git against the newer libgit2 seems to resolve the
issues; the test suites passed on amd64, armhf, i386 (the only platforms
currently buildable on Debian).
live well,
vagrant
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