Bug 756757 – net-wireless/gqrx-2.14: fails to build with USE=-pulseaudio

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Daniel M. Weeks 2020-11-25 18:23:43 UTC]

* ERROR: net-wireless/gqrx-2.14::gentoo failed (prepare phase):
 *   (no error message)
 * 
 * Call stack:
 *     ebuild.sh, line 125:  Called src_prepare
 *   environment, line 2003:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *           sed -i 's/AUDIO_BACKEND = pulse/#AUDIO_BACKEND = pulse/' gqrx.pro || die;
 * 

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 David Turner 2020-11-27 01:40:14 UTC]

This is quite annoying since gqrx was bumped to v2.14 as v2.12.1-r1 fails to build as per bug #751082 ... and it appears there was no test that v2.14 builds when pulseaudio is disabled.

The issue in the ebuild is that it does a sed patch to the gqrx.pro file in that
case, but that file is no longer present in the codebase.

However, it should be safe to remove the sed patch for v2.14 as that pro file is only used for the older qmake build variant. cmake is now the only option which is what the ebuild uses anyway. See:
https://github.com/csete/gqrx/commit/bbdf77c09a3bbcce200f50cfe5f5332f4b6b3f93

I will try removing that sed patch from a local ebuild overlay on my pulseaudio free system and see if the result builds....

[Comment 2 David Turner 2020-11-27 01:46:28 UTC]

Yep. Works fine if those lines are removed. Will add a ebuild patch to this bug...

[Comment 3 David Turner 2020-11-27 01:49:08 UTC]

Created attachment 675232 [details, diff]
Patch to remove sed patching of missing file

[Comment 4 David Turner 2020-11-27 01:50:04 UTC]

To be clear, gqrx builds on my system with -pulseaudio and starts fine... I did a quick check on the FM band and seem fine.

[Comment 5 Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) 2020-12-21 17:35:03 UTC]

This was fixed a little while ago based on feedback from a different bug and some testing. Thanks for the report, hope it works better now.