Re: current - unable to rebuild gobject-introspection due to libffi

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%talktalk.net@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 03:13:41PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> 
> Patrick Welche wrote:
> >> Given the error below, there seems to be a failure right on the libffi
> >> needed for libgirepository, but it is the one I am trying to replace, or
> >> not?
> > I think one cunning plan seen on this list was to look at the output from
> > 
> >   grep libffi.so.7 /usr/pkg/pkgdb/*/+BUILD_INFO
> 
> the output is below. Sorry if it doesn't illuminate immediately. Does it
> mean I should force a rebuild of another package first?

That's what I thought - I assume you have libffi.so.8, so those packages
will be in trouble - but none seem relevant.

The other work around seen on the mailing lists was to remove the installed
gobject-introspection, then build it, which would explain why pbulk builds
are happy. This might make sense as:

ld: warning: libffi.so.7, needed by /usr/pkg/lib/libgirepository-1.0.so.1, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)

suggests an already installed gobject-introspection...

(I think there is a way of not removing all the packages which depend
on gobject-introspection)


Cheers,

Patrick