Bug 65425 – subversion-1.0.8 fails - cannot find -lswigpy

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description f5d8fd51ed1e804c9e8d0357e8614e0493b06e96 2004-09-26 10:20:08 UTC]

emerging subversion-1.0.8 fails with the following error:

checking for swig... /usr/bin/swig
checking swig version... 1.3.22
checking for swig library directory... /usr/share/swig/1.3.22
configure: "Configuring python swig binding"
checking if swig needs -L for its libraries... -L/usr/share/swig
checking for Python includes... -I/usr/include/python2.3
checking for compiling Python extensions... gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -fPIC
checking for linking Python extensions... gcc -pthread -shared
....
cc -L/var/tmp/portage/subversion-1.0.8/image//usr/lib -O3 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe   -pthread  -DNEON_ZLIB -DNEON_SSL  -L/usr/lib  -rpath /usr/lib -o libsvn_swig_py-1.la swigutil_py.lo -lswigpy ../../../subversion/libsvn_subr/libsvn_subr-1.la ../../../subversion/libsvn_delta/libsvn_delta-1.la /usr/lib/libaprutil-0.la -lgdbm -ldb-4.2 -lexpat /usr/lib/libapr-0.la -lrt -lm -lcrypt -lnsl  -lpthread -ldl
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lswigpy
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [subversion/bindings/swig/libsvn_swig_py-1.la] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 f5d8fd51ed1e804c9e8d0357e8614e0493b06e96 2004-09-26 10:50:01 UTC]

re-emerging 'swig', this time with the 'python' USE flag set solved the problem... for this time it built the python bindings that subversion was missing on the last try...

but one question remains for me - why was subversion requiring those without the 'python' USE flag set?

[Comment 2 Sven Wegener 2004-09-26 11:13:00 UTC]

*** Bug 65424 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 f5d8fd51ed1e804c9e8d0357e8614e0493b06e96 2004-09-26 11:41:22 UTC]

hmm... no, I were wrong.... the problem remains...

[Comment 4 Harm Geerts 2004-09-26 12:32:12 UTC]

Downgrading to swig-1.3.21 as I stated in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65424 fixes the compile issues.

I think the problem is caused by the removal of some runtime stuff from the swig ebuild/package. Which I also reported in said bug.
So, why did mine get duped instead of this one?

[Comment 5 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) 2004-09-26 13:32:33 UTC]

Harm, I commented on the original bug (which is not a duplicate indeed), and we will fix swig. In the meantime I'll try to check out why python is required when it shouldn't.

[Comment 6 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-02-20 02:37:48 UTC]

Stale bug, reopen if this is still an issue with up-to-date subversion ebuilds.