Starting from version 1.1.43, the following changes have been made to the assembly: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/commit/09b41917dd6fa12f7ca46462622c91bb72343196 If with_debugger was previously always enabled, it is now disabled. Some features are now unavailable for assembly. It would be nice to add the ability to build with this option in the ebuild. For example, it wouldn't hurt to add a new flag.
See also bug 923267 (which I think prompted Nick to do that).
I don't know what it's connected with. I looked and another commit is used there: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/commit/c65a7c05f98ea4e9fae1247510b45db9dd3ec907 This is usually necessary to support older applications. For new applications these methods are generally no longer used. It's just that at the moment the lack of this option limits the ability to build old applications. But in principle, if desired, you can of course add a local patch from the user to solve this problem. But this will be much more difficult than if this feature was available as a separate flag.
(In reply to Roman from comment #2) > I don't know what it's connected with. (It was just a general remark for provenance.) > I looked and another commit is used there: > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/commit/ > c65a7c05f98ea4e9fae1247510b45db9dd3ec907 > This is usually necessary to support older applications. For new > applications these methods are generally no longer used. It's just that at > the moment the lack of this option limits the ability to build old > applications. But in principle, if desired, you can of course add a local > patch from the user to solve this problem. But this will be much more > difficult than if this feature was available as a separate flag. I hadn't got from your initial report that it actually broke compilation of some applications, I thought you just meant it was useful functionality sometimes. I guess I can add it under a USE flag if some applications need it (local ones or are they packages)?
(In reply to Sam James from comment #3) > I guess I can add it under a USE flag if some applications need it (local > ones or are they packages)? I tried to build this package: https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tdewebdev/src/branch/master/kxsldbg I am no longer involved in supporting the TDE build, so this is not critical for me at the moment. I think if there is someone willing to support this, then it could be useful. I don't know how they compiled it for Fedora 41, since there is already a version of this library in the updates, but the xsltSetDebuggerCallbacks function is involved in the assembly of the xsldbg binary. Sooner or later they will have to remove this piece of code from xsldbg.
