Bug 320211

Summary:	net-in/pidgin-2.7 can no longer be built on IRIX due to package dependancies :(
Product:	Gentoo/Alt	Reporter:	Stuart Shelton <srcshelton>
Component:	Prefix Support	Assignee:	Gentoo Prefix <prefix>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	IRIX
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	320167, 320225
Bug Blocks:	320843

Description Stuart Shelton 2010-05-17 15:24:43 UTC

net-im/pidgin now requires net-libs/farsight2, which in turn requires media-libs/gstreamer (eh?) which requires dev-libs/check... which doesn't build on IRIX (Bug 268002) :(

Surely, some of these dependencies can be made optional, or at least made to rely on USE flags so that they can be easily bypassed?

Comment 1 Stuart Shelton 2010-05-17 15:27:44 UTC

Indeed, media-libs/gstreamer has dev-libs/check and "--enable-check" hard-coded... can't this be made a USE flag or rolled into USE="test"?

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2010-05-21 08:53:18 UTC

pidgin+farsight -> Bug 320843

that leaves gstreamer+check which someone else can figure out if it's actually optional before bugging the gstreamer maintainers

Comment 3 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-05-21 14:21:10 UTC

Actually, since gst 0.10.25, there is an internal copy of libcheck.. So I removed the dep