Re: ffi errors building gobject-introspection

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost> writes:

> glib2 doesn't have any dependencies on it, however linking fails at this
> incriminate file:
> ld: warning: libffi.so.7, needed by /usr/pkg/lib/libgirepository-1.0.so.1
>
> /usr/pkg/lib/libgirepository-1.0.so:
>         -lglib-2.0.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
>         -lpcre2-8.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libpcre2-8.so.0
>         -lc.12 => /usr/lib/libc.so.12
>         -lintl.1 => /usr/lib/libintl.so.1
>         -lgcc_s.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
>         -lpthread.1 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.1
>         -lgobject-2.0.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
>         -lffi.8 => /usr/pkg/lib/libffi.so.8
>         -lgmodule-2.0.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0
>         -lgio-2.0.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0
>         -lz.1 => /usr/pkg/lib/libz.so.1
>         -lffi.7 => not found
>         -lm.0 => /usr/lib/libm.so.0
>
> wow, it tries to link in two libffi versions?
> And where does this package come from?
>
> $ pkg_info -Fe /usr/pkg/lib/libgirepository-1.0.so
> gobject-introspection-1.68.0
>
> $ ls -l /usr/pkg/lib/libgirepository-1.0.so
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  24 Oct 18  2021
> /usr/pkg/lib/libgirepository-1.0.so -> libgirepository-1.0.so.1
>
> so this is an old file.

Exactly, the problem is the old installed version.

> but gobject-introspection is really the package I am upgrading! Doe sit
> look as the package while uprading looks into its own installed version?
> I think it should use this:
> $ find . -name libgirepository-1.0.so
> ./gobject-introspection-1.74.0/output/girepository/libgirepository-1.0.so
> inside the workdir. Which, after a quick check is correctly linked to
> libffi.8 as expected.

You are correct that it *should* use that.  However,
gobject-introspection has been known to be broken in this way on macOS
for several years.  I do not have memories of it failing on NetBSD.  It
will need a makefile intervention to make sure the linking with the
newly-built lib is higher priority than /usr/pkg/lib.