Re: ghostscript-agpl build failure on Linux

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

Am 13.04.25 um 20:02 schrieb Taylor R Campbell:
> > Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 19:50:00 +0200
> > From: Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>
> >
> > I am seeing a consistent failure when running "make replace" for
> > ghostscript-agpl on Fedora Linux:
> >
> > [...]
> > The following variables will affect the build process of this package,
> > ghostscript-agpl-10.05.0.  Their current value is shown below:
> >
> >           * JPEG_DEFAULT = jpeg
> >           * KRB5_DEFAULT = mit-krb5
> >           * PAPERSIZE = A4
> > [...]
> > ===> Creating toolchain wrappers for ghostscript-agpl-10.05.0
> > ERROR: mit-krb5>=1.4 is not installed; can't buildlink files.
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop.
> > bmake[1]: stopped making "replace" in
> > /home/bsiegert/pkgsrc/print/ghostscript-agpl
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > ISTR that there was a Kerberos-related change recently. It's curious
> > that mit-krb5 does not appear as part of the dependencies.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> What does `bmake show-buildlink3' say?

mit-krb5 comes from libcups, according to "bmake show-buildlink3".

> The Kerberos dependency comes via print/libcups/buildlink3.mk, when
> you have the `cups' option enabled for ghostscript-agpl and the
> `kerberos' option enabled for libcups:

Yes, I have "dbus dnssd kerberos" options on libcups.

> I would guess (not having investigated, so this has a decent chance of
> being wrong) that the change of KRB5_DEFAULT might break incremental
> updates of existing installations, so you probably either need to:
>
> (a) put KRB5_DEFAULT=heimdal in mk.conf for incremental updates, or
> (b) rebuild ~all your packages afresh (or at least, all those whose
>      dependency chains involve any kerberos/gssapi anywhere).

Is there an easy trick for (b)? Otherwise, I will go with (a).

--
Benny

PS: Thank you so much for the quick reply! This was super helpful :)