Bug 567916 – app-pda/libimobiledevice-1.1.6 Could not link test program to Python.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Oleh 2015-12-10 08:24:38 UTC]

python unmasks, that have changed abi and config revealing another "obscure" package

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rebuild of all python dependent packages finds broken app-pda/libimobiledevice-1.1.6
2. or emerge =app-pda/libimobiledevice-1.1.6
3.
Actual Results:  
configure: error: 
  Could not link test program to Python. Maybe the main Python library has been
  installed in some non-standard library path. If so, pass it to configure,
  via the LDFLAGS environment variable.
  Example: ./configure LDFLAGS="-L/usr/non-standard-path/python/lib"
  ============================================================================
   ERROR!
   You probably have to install the development version of the Python package
   for your distribution.  The exact name of this package varies among them.
  ============================================================================


While we (humble users) mostly agree about some packages having out of date python support that is not following upstream, we are bit upset that portage tree consistency are always checked *after* bugs reported. I hope 2016 year will be a year of changing minds and moving away of reactive workflow. yes, this means, test ALL (literally) packages. 
Changes that are potentially touching all reverse deps of python need run of buildbot-like testing. This will also help to find "upstream" broken packages, one may have an excuse about why breakages happen.

[Comment 1 Oleh 2015-12-10 08:24:54 UTC]

Created attachment 418918 [details]
build.log

[Comment 2 Oleh 2015-12-14 16:03:58 UTC]

just in case its a stopper for gnome merge.

[Comment 3 Oleh 2015-12-15 08:48:36 UTC]

Created attachment 419262 [details]
updated ebuild

[Comment 4 rypervenche 2016-01-03 01:02:30 UTC]

Created attachment 421706 [details]
build.log of failed emerge

I am also experiencing this issue on libimobiledevice-1.2.0. I have attached my build.log. I can provide any other logs if necessary.

[Comment 5 rypervenche 2016-01-04 17:35:30 UTC]

This has also begun causing problems with my updates and I am unable to run a system update without excluding many packages. Currently I am having to add the following excludes in order to get my world updates to work, although not completely:

--exclude libimobiledevice --exclude libplist --exclude ifuse --exclude libusbmuxd --exclude gvfs --exclude upower-pm-utils --exclude thunar

Rather messy and I would like to be able to have this fixed correctly, soon if possible. Thank you.^^

[Comment 6 Tamas Jantvik 2016-01-12 14:34:02 UTC]

As a work-around you can add
app-pda/libimobiledevice -python_targets_python3_3 -python_targets_python3_4 -python_targets_python3_5
to (one of) your package.use file(s).

[Comment 7 Toralf Förster 2016-01-17 10:12:39 UTC]

Happened here @ amd64-gnome-unstable_20160110-213500 too.

[Comment 8 Mike Gilbert 2016-01-25 02:21:48 UTC]

commit c60e3d690e7a2254893cd21285d62135660c8405
Author: Mike Gilbert <[e-mail]>
Date:   Sun Jan 24 21:20:15 2016 -0500

    app-pda/libimobiledevice: Override PYTHON_LDFLAGS in src_configure
    
    Works around broken build system.
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/567916
    
    Package-Manager: portage-2.2.27_p49

 app-pda/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice-1.1.6-r1.ebuild | 9 +++++++--
 app-pda/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice-1.2.0.ebuild    | 9 +++++++--
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)