On Fri, 2020-02-14 at 10:12 +0100, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 06:22:05PM +0100, Matthias Schiffer wrote:
> > gettext's configure will automatically used the libraries it finds,
> > and
> > fall back to included versions otherwise. Avoid this non-
> > deterministic
> > behaviour by explicitly choosing the included libraries.
> > 
> > In particular, this issue can break parallel builds with --force
> > after
> > config changes due to a race condition:
> > 
> > 1. gettext configure finds libraries from a previous build in
> > sysroot,
> >    decides not to use the included libraries
> > 2. Installed libraries gets cleaned from sysroot due to --force
> > 3. gettext build fails, as it attemps to use the now removed
> > libraries
> 
> I'd prefer to select glib and libxml instead. Or are there any
> reasons not
> to do this?

Fine with me.

> 
> The only current user is parted. Do you know why it needs that on the
> target anyways? Most packages only need gettext at runtime.

Hmm, this was added with the original parted rules in 2010, and I don't
see any issues without it - in fact, configure will choose gettext
functions from libc even when full gettext is available. I'll send a v3
of the parted patch.


> 
> Michael
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <[email protected]
> > >
> > ---
> >  rules/gettext.make | 6 ++++++
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/rules/gettext.make b/rules/gettext.make
> > index dd1d22ffb..199616c87 100644
> > --- a/rules/gettext.make
> > +++ b/rules/gettext.make
> > @@ -54,10 +54,16 @@ GETTEXT_AUTOCONF := \
> >     --disable-acl \
> >     --disable-openmp \
> >     --disable-curses \
> > +   --with-included-gettext \
> > +   --with-included-glib \
> > +   --with-included-libcroco \
> > +   --with-included-libunistring \
> > +   --with-included-libxml \
> >     --without-emacs \
> >     --without-bzip2 \
> >     --without-xz
> >  
> > +
> >  # ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > ------------
> >  # Target-Install
> >  # ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > ------------
> > -- 
> > 2.17.1
> > 
> > 
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