Re: ffi errors building gobject-introspection

Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> writes:

> I am upgrading gobject-introspection on NetBSD 9.3 sparc64:
> Version mismatch: 'gobject-introspection' 1.68.0 vs 1.74.0
>
> but "make replace" fails:
> ld: warning: libffi.so.7, needed by
> /usr/pkg/lib/libgirepository-1.0.so.1, not found (try using -rpath or
> -rpath-link)

Have you

  updated your entire pkgsrc tree to a consistent state?

  run 'pkg_rolling-replace -uvs' before this, so that everything else is
  up to date?

Beyond that, it says libffi.so.7 can't be found.  On my NetBSD 9 amd64
system, I have libffi.so.8.   Probably you do too, and you still have
something installed that needs that.

I am now guessing that the problem is that gobject-introspection's build
is buggy and ends up using installed libs in preference to those in the
build tree.  If that's the case you could pkg_delete -f the existing
package, or perhaps just move away that lib.