Bug 706006

Summary:	x11-wm/windowmaker-0.95.8-r1 : cross-compiling fails from using host development files
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	David Michael <fedora.dm0>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Gnustep project <gnustep>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	PATCH
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/wmaker-dev/O15t2CSuhrw
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description David Michael 2020-01-21 15:45:53 UTC

WindowMaker is hard-coded to use host header/library search paths:
https://repo.or.cz/wmaker-crm.git/blob/wmaker-0.95.8:/configure.ac#l287

This makes the build explode when compiling for an incompatible architecture.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run "emerge windowmaker" when configured to cross-compile with a sysroot.  (My case was an amd64 host building for ppc.)
Actual Results:  
It dumps around 2MiB of repeating logs about float128 not being supported by the compiler's architecture due to /usr/include headers.

Expected Results:  
It should build and install.

I reported it upstream (see the bug URL) a few days ago, but the repo hasn't seen activity in half a year, so it might not be fixed in the near future.  The simplest fix for the distro might be to just drop the default paths in configure.ac until upstream decides what to do.

Comment 1 Bernard Cafarelli gentoo-dev

2020-01-24 14:22:20 UTC

Thanks for report and patch! Yes, until it is applied upstream (and a new release), there could be some time.

Change looks good to me, and luckily ebuild already does an autoreconf call, so I will add patch to current 0.95.8-r1

Comment 2 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2020-01-24 14:30:03 UTC

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=e9b13ddd0ca118db1a32742332ab21d06cdd6882

commit e9b13ddd0ca118db1a32742332ab21d06cdd6882
Author:     Bernard Cafarelli <voyageur@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2020-01-24 14:29:52 +0000
Commit:     Bernard Cafarelli <voyageur@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2020-01-24 14:29:52 +0000

    x11-wm/windowmaker: fix cross-compilation
    
    Thanks David Michael for patch and bug report
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/706006
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.85, Repoman-2.3.20
    Signed-off-by: Bernard Cafarelli <voyageur@gentoo.org>

 ...ker-0.95.8-configure_default_search_paths.patch | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 x11-wm/windowmaker/windowmaker-0.95.8-r1.ebuild    |  4 +-
 2 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)