Bug 705144 – dev-util/meson-0.53.0: ERROR: Unable to determine dynamic linker

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Aidan Harris 2020-01-11 08:52:14 UTC]

Created attachment 602946 [details]
meson-bisect.sh

Building any meson project produces the above error message (`ERROR: Unable to determine linker`).

I bisected meson using the attached script as follows:

> git clone https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson.git meson
> cd meson
> git checkout 0.53.0
> git bisect bad
> git bisect good 0.52.1
> git bisect run ~/meson-bisect.sh

That came back with the following:
> 
> ef9aeb188ea2bc7353e59916c18901cde90fa2b3 is the first bad commit
> commit ef9aeb188ea2bc7353e59916c18901cde90fa2b3
> Author: Dylan Baker <dylan@REDACTED>
> Date:   Tue Nov 19 09:30:46 2019 -0800
> 
>    Allow selecting the dynamic linker
> 
>     This uses the normal meson mechanisms, an LD environment variable or via
>     cross/native files.
> 
>     Fixes: #6057
> 
>  docs/markdown/snippets/linker_override.md   |  17 +++
>  mesonbuild/compilers/compilers.py           |   6 +
>  mesonbuild/compilers/mixins/gnu.py          |   4 +
>  mesonbuild/compilers/mixins/visualstudio.py |   4 +
>  mesonbuild/compilers/rust.py                |   6 +-
>  mesonbuild/envconfig.py                     |   2 +
>  mesonbuild/environment.py                   | 206 +++++++++++++++++-----------
>  mesonbuild/linkers.py                       |  28 ++--
>  run_unittests.py                            |   4 +-
>  9 files changed, 182 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 docs/markdown/snippets/linker_override.md
> bisect run success

[Comment 1 Aidan Harris 2020-01-11 08:55:34 UTC]

This may be related?

https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/6442

[Comment 2 Mart Raudsepp 2020-01-11 09:03:50 UTC]

I already p.masked it on these basis and upstream information. Guess the p.mask information could be updated with this bug number now :)

[Comment 3 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2020-01-12 01:32:20 UTC]

*** Bug 705208 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 4 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2020-01-12 01:32:26 UTC]

*** Bug 705210 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 5 William Hubbs 2020-02-17 16:35:17 UTC]

0.53.1 is now in the tree. Let me know if this is still an issue.