On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 02:15:56PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote:
> I've been looking at glib-2.58. They are moving to meson/ninja although the
> autotools build can still be made to work.
>
> I have a couple of issues about the new build.
>
> First, the latest package does not have the prebuilt man pages. It does
> have an option:
>
> option('man',
> type : 'boolean',
> value : false,
> description : 'generate man pages (requires xsltproc)')
>
> ninja does create the man pages and 'ninja install' installs them.
>
> Should we make xsltproc recommended and use -Dman=yes?
>
I doubt many people care about manpages from glib, so I would list
the dep as optional (required for the manpages) and comment
-Dman=yes in the explanations of options.
> ----------
>
> Second, there is one test (ninja test) that fails: gdatetime. This has a
> couple of issues. First it assumes that /etc/localhost is a symbolic link.
> It fails if it is a regular file. It appears that this is built into glib
> and is not a test issue. If I set up localtime on /etc like:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Sep 3 12:35 /etc/localtime -> localtime.cdt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3585 Aug 13 13:15 /etc/localtime.cdt
>
> then all the subtests in gdatetime except one pass. I used cdt for right
> now since I'm in the CDT timezone. If we change localhost to be like
>
> localhost -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/<your TZ>
>
> then it breaks our support of a separate /usr directory. I've noticed this
> problem before in some display environments where the panel clock always
> seems to be at UTC unless the symlink hack above is used.
>
e.g. plasma - I've got that symlink in one of my scripts for
installing the kf5 / plasma / kde packages.
Maybe a note that /etc/localtime needs to be a symlink for the
gdatetime test to pass, and that making it will prevent correct
booting if /usr is not mounted ? I'm sorry, I don't recall exactly
what would happen, nor at what point in the boot, I've never made
/usr a separate partition.
> There is also one other line in the gdatetime.c file that needs to be
> commented out to get all glib tests to pass.
>
> I'm inclined to just state that gdatetime fails.
>
> Is that the best way to handle this test failure?
>
> -- Bruce
Or "fails, because /etc/localtime needs to be a symlink and BLFS
installs it as a real file, to allow a separate /usr filesystem."
ĸen
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