On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 03:32:07PM -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 10/22/20 3:23 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > I saw that sysprof was now recommended for libsoup, and I thought > > I'd seen a post about that, but I can't spot it in my mail or by > > searching on google ? > > Some related info: > > > http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/14051 > > http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/changeset/23755 > > > Anyway,for the current build I went along with the recommendation > > and added it, plus libdazzle. But building libsoup did not go > > smoothly: > > > > First, ld failed to find libsysprof-4.so. Invoking ldconfig solved > > that, but then ld failed to find libsysprof-capture-4 because it is > > a static lib which I automatically make unavailable - I *want* to > > know what uses static libs to indicate what needs to be rebuilt when > > upgrading. Obviously not the book's problem, but an annoyance - > > there are very few packages I now build where I need static libs > > (binutils, expect, libcap, libtool, qtwebengine, graphviz) and they > > were one of the reasons why I gave up on kf5. > Part of the reason why libsysprof-capture-4 needs to be static is due to the > fact that it's a hook which is used to capture information from a process. > On a side note, I just found a typo in that page that I'll fix at my next > commit :-) > > Unfortunateley, my later build attempts overwrote the original log, > > so I can't confirm that it was indeed libsysprof-4.so which was > > missing, and therefore I can't confirm that ldconfig needs to be > > run. > It might not be a bad idea to add that in anyway to prevent any future > problems. > > Now that my system is more or less complete I've taken a look at the > > meson filesi from libsoup and it seems to me that sysprof is > > expected to be optional and auto-detected. But perhaps I'm missing > > something ? > Without sysprof installed, libsoup will download and install it's own > version of sysprof as a submodule. We're trying to prevent meson from > downloading external packages without our consent, so we added sysprof to > the book (since it can also be used by GJS and Mutter) :-) > > ĸen
Ah, thanks - I guess I saw it in thoat ticket. A static lib is marginally better than meson downloading things. ĸen -- The people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them: I work all day, a man's got to have some time to learn to play the tuba. That's oppression, that is. [ Guards! Guards! ] -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
