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Bug 613792

Summary: >=sys-libs/efivar-23 (including current stable) miss pkgconfig (build time) dependancy
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Julien Décharne <jd>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Mike Gilbert <floppym>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: jd
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Julien Décharne 2017-03-25 14:12:04 UTC
>=sys-libs/efivar-23 fail to compile if pkgconfig is not installed. ebuilds should add virtual/pkgconfig to their DEPEND variable.

TO REPRODUCE:
# emerge --depclean
  note: virtual/pkgconfig might be pulled by some packages, in this case this bug doesn't appear; for reproducing this bug removing pkgconfig by hand is necessary : emerge --unmerge virtual/pkgconfig dev-utils/pkgconfig
# emerge sys-libs/efivar
(...)
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc (...) -o efivar efivar.c -lefivar -ldl
(...)sys-libs/efivar-30/temp/ccsucL3b.ltrans0.ltrans.o: In function `main':
<artificial>:(.text.startup+0x2ef): undefined reference to `poptAliasOptions'
(...)
 * ERROR: sys-libs/efivar-30::gentoo failed (compile phase):
 *   emake failed
(...)


WORKAROUND:
# emerge --oneshot virtual/pkgconfig
# emerge sys-libs/efivar
(...)
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc (...) -o efivar efivar.c -lefivar -ldl -lpopt
(...)
# emerge --depclean


DETAILS
Without pkgconfig installed, efivar's Make system doesn't define pkgconfig-related variables - without emitting any warning. When compiling, the last gcc command fail to find reference symbols defined by library popt, because Make didn't add proper argument for searching popt library at link time ("-lpopt").
Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev 2017-03-25 22:38:14 UTC
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=0106c058b984a0868ec01d7f74044145c56814e2

commit 0106c058b984a0868ec01d7f74044145c56814e2
Author: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
Date:   Sat Mar 25 18:36:02 2017 -0400

    sys-libs/efivar: depend on pkgconfig
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/613792
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.5_p2, Repoman-2.3.2_p32

 sys-libs/efivar/efivar-30.ebuild | 4 +++-
 sys-libs/efivar/efivar-31.ebuild | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)