Re: big sur: info files for po4a and module-build-pm-11.3 and stuck with libxslt-1.1.34-1 failed

On 6/8/21 4:24 PM, Sven de Vries wrote:
>>> tried to build under 11.4 package  po4a (actually emacs26 is the goal).
>>>
>>> I needed to create po4a-11.3 and module-build-pm-11.3 see attached. 
>>> Maybe someone could push them into the tree.??
>>
>> Does extutils-parsexs-pm (a dependency for module-build-pm) pass tests 
>> for
>> you on 11.3? That's what's been keeping me from adding module-build-pm 
>> to 11.3.
> 
> strange enough, it seems to be installed :
>   i   extutils-parsex  3.35-1       Converts Perl XS code into C code
> 
> but if I try to rebuild it (unsure of the name extutils-parsex-pm or 
> extutils-parsex) in both cases it says: Failed: no package found for 
> specification
> 
> The header of the infofile I find starts with:
> 
> Package: extutils-parsexs-pm
> Version: 3.35
> Revision: 1

`fink list` only shows part of the package name if the terminal window 
is too narrow. You can make the window wider to get the full name or run 
`fink list -t extutils-parsexs` to get the full package name.

>> For the libxml/libxslt problem, that was fixed over the weekend (your 
>> selfupdate must have just missed it).
> 
> strange enough, that is not the case neither ...
> if I just try again to install po4a I get:
> 
> The following 4 additional packages will be installed:
>   libxslt-bin libxslt-shlibs module-build-pm sgmls-pm
> 
> and then building libxslt  fails with:
> checking for xml2-config... /opt/sw3/bin/xml2-config
> checking for LIBXML... no
> configure: error: Could not find libxml2 anywhere, check 
> ftp://xmlsoft.org/.
> ### execution of ./configure failed, exit code 1
> ### execution of /tmp/fink.XX74q failed, exit code 1
> 
> the configure-invocation is:
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/sw3   --without-crypto --disable-static 
> --without-python --with-html-subdir=libxslt --enable-dependency-tracking 
> --disable-silent-rules XSLTPROC=/usr/bin/true
> 
> 
> and fink dumpinfo libxslt
> 
> tells me:
> 
> infofile: /opt/sw3/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/libs/libxslt.info
> debfile: 
> /opt/sw3/fink/11.3/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/libs/libxslt_1.1.34-2_darwin-x86_64.deb 
> 
> package: libxslt
> epoch:
> version: 1.1.34
> revision: 2
> family: libxslt, libxslt-shlibs, libxslt-bin
> status: latest
> allversions:
>          1.1.34-2

This is confusing (you have deb file but it still tries to build the 
package). What does `fink list -t libxml2 libxslt` show?

Hanspeter

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