During the build process libX11 wants to execute its makekeys tool. For cross-compilation this fails, as the tool is compiled for the target architecture. The following patch catches this case and compiles an additional host version of makekeys. Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 186382 [details, diff] Ebuild part of the patch Apply the patch in the ebuild. (Align the use switches)
Created attachment 186384 [details, diff] Cross-compile fix Compile a host version of the required makekeys tool when we cross-compile. A smilar patch for libXt can be found in #263897.
Created attachment 186387 [details, diff] Corrected ebuild patch Wooops, we also need to remove the previous cross-compile hack and do an autoreconf. This fails without the patch that follows.
Created attachment 186389 [details, diff] Autoreconf fix for configure.ac Without the patch I get the following error during autoreconf: > error: possibly undefined macro: XTRANS_CONNECTION_FLAGS > If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. > See the Autoconf documentation. In configure.ac the XTRANS_CONNECTION_FLAGS macro is forbidden rather than allowed. That seems to be wierd. Allowing this macro fixes autoreconf.
Please open a bug in FreeDesktop's bugzilla with your patch attached to it and paste the url here. Thanks
the comments in Bug 263897 apply to this patch as well
Created attachment 186884 [details, diff] Reworked patch Make use of the cross_compile variable and respect preset CC_FOR_BUILD. Hope this makes vapier happy!? Will submit upstream and paste the URL here.
Submitted upstream as http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20981
Upstream seems to think the bug is already fixed...
That's true for version 1.1.99 or 1.2. So we either bump the version here or backport the Xorg fix or apply the patch as is. Upstream also thinks that the xtrans macro patch is wrong, however I can't reconfgure the package without it. Maybe it's a problem with my environment, because I think I have x11-libs/xtrans installed (this should provide the missing macro).
Comment on attachment 186389 [details, diff] Autoreconf fix for configure.ac The problem was an artefact of cross-compilation (host was missing xtrans). The patch is not required.
So the only problem left is the makekeys issue. How to proceed? Version bump? Backporting? Taking the current tested patch?
(In reply to comment #9) > Upstream seems to think the bug is already fixed... I think this might just be a "better" fix. Anybody poked at what is upstream now?
Upstream says bug is fixed. Could anyone enlighten me on what needs to be done here? Aren't newer versions (that I yet have to unmask...) fixed? Thanks
Cross compiling the libX11-1.2.2 ebuild works for arm and powerpc but still has a CFLAG vs. CFLAG_FOR_BUILD issue that causes cross compiling mips64 to fail as -mabi is part of CFLAGS. There is a corresponding bug and a proposed patch at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22584. Creating a new patch for 1.1.5 based on this should be possible, right?
Then please send the patch to the xorg-devel mailing list, so that it gets reviewed/applied soon. Once the patch is in git, I'll backport it or even roll out a new release. Thanks
