Bug 446902

Summary:	app-text/dvisvgm builds a useless static libpotrace
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	TeX project <tex>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugs.launchpad.net/dvisvgm/+bug/1153182
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	243502

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2012-12-11 18:03:38 UTC

You receive this bug because this package does not respect my system's AR ( x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar - /usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar ) and calls directly ar - /usr/bin/ar
The possible solutions to fix this issue are:
1)Fix the buildsystem, if you can
2)inherit toolchain-funcs and use tc-export AR
3)inherit toolchain-funcs and use emake AR="$(tc-getAR)"


ar cru libpotrace.a curve.o trace.o decompose.o potracelib.o

Comment 1 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev

2013-02-21 19:21:23 UTC

different issue imho

it uses libpotrace from system but insists in building its own that will be thrown away...

Comment 2 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev

2013-03-10 10:13:35 UTC

fixed in 1.2

$ cat files/dvisvgm-1.2-external_potrace.patch 
Do not build potracelib if system potrace is being used.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/dvisvgm/+bug/1153182
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446902