Re: ffi errors building gobject-introspection

On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 12:45 AM Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> 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.

Maybe i did not fully describe what i meant :)

I meant delete the old package or do a replace installation, so that
libffi.so7 is not present anymore.
Then install libffi.so.7 and rebuild the chain that uses it.

Regards,
Connor