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Bug 723666

Summary: dev-python/python-debian calls ar directly in src_test
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Mike Gilbert <floppym>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: normal CC: mgorny, python
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 243502    
Attachments: build.log

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2020-05-18 10:21:19 UTC
This is an auto-filed bug because dev-python/python-debian fails tests.
The issue was originally discovered on amd64, but it may be reproducible on other arches as well.
If you think that a different summary clarifies the issue better, feel free to change it.
Attached build log and emerge --info.

NOTE:
If you need further logs, feel free to ask.
Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2020-05-18 10:21:27 UTC
Created attachment 640056 [details]
build.log

build log and emerge --info
Comment 2 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2020-05-18 11:06:35 UTC
Is this one of these fancy environment that remove 'ar' and entirely miss the fact that 'ar' is an archiver that is not necessarily used in toolchain context?
Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2020-05-19 19:18:19 UTC
It should use system AR instead of /usr/bin/ar
Comment 4 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2020-05-19 19:27:35 UTC
(In reply to Agostino Sarubbo from comment #3)
> It should use system AR instead of /usr/bin/ar

Why?
Comment 5 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2020-05-19 19:27:59 UTC
...and how should it determine what 'system AR' is at runtime?
Comment 6 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2020-05-19 19:37:52 UTC
(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #4)
> (In reply to Agostino Sarubbo from comment #3)
> > It should use system AR instead of /usr/bin/ar
> 
> Why?

To give the users to choose which ar implementation use



(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #5)
> ...and how should it determine what 'system AR' is at runtime?

by using AR variable like other build system are doing
Comment 7 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2020-05-19 19:41:51 UTC
(In reply to Agostino Sarubbo from comment #6)
> (In reply to Michał Górny from comment #4)
> > (In reply to Agostino Sarubbo from comment #3)
> > > It should use system AR instead of /usr/bin/ar
> > 
> > Why?
> 
> To give the users to choose which ar implementation use

Are we now going to patch all software away from using 'bzip2' so that users may choose a different bzip2 implementation explicitly?

> (In reply to Michał Górny from comment #5)
> > ...and how should it determine what 'system AR' is at runtime?
> 
> by using AR variable like other build system are doing

How can it use AR variable if it is only defined at build time?  It's a program, not a build system.