On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 03:29:47PM +0200, Felix Mellmann wrote:
> On 03.09.21 17:36, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 08:37:27PM +0200, Felix Mellmann wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > > 
> > > I've just encountered a problem when using python3-lxml on PTXdist master
> > > branch:
> > > 
> > > $ python3
> > > Python 3.7.10 (default, Aug  1 2021, 00:00:00)
> > > [GCC 10.2.1 20200822] on linux
> > > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> > > > > > from lxml import etree
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> > > ImportError:
> > > /usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/lxml/etree.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so:
> > > undefined symbol: xsltGetProfileInformation
> > > 
> > > The problem arises through libxslt which is configured using
> > > "--without-profiler" since commit 1940c3 .
> > > 
> > > Removing this option again allows to at least import etree from lxml. I
> > > haven't done any investigation whether lxml may crash again elsewhere.
> > > 
> > > Are there any concerns about removing that configuration option again?
> > You should probably change it to --with-profiler instead unless that's
> > broken. Otherwise, I have no objections.
> 
> Maybe Alexander had reasons to add "--without-profiler" without any
> configuration option. He added three more options within the same patch but
> left only this one fixed to "without".
> 
> So the compromise could be to add a new configuration option with default
> value of "n" and add this configuration option as a dependency to
> python3-lxml?
> 
> But as long as we don't know Alexander's reasons to do so, compiling with
> the profiler option could break something else.

So lets ask him: Alex, can you comment on this? Did you have a reason other
than just disabling it because it seemed unnecessary?

Michael

> > Please add a comment about breaking python3-lxml at runtime, so we know in
> > the future why this was changed.
> > 
> > Michael
> > 
> 
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