Bug 881503

Summary:	app-laptop/pbbuttonsd-0.8.1a - configure: error: SMBios library not available. Please install development files for libsmbios.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Toralf Förster <toralf>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	PPC Porters <ppc>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	fatzer2
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	PullRequest
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/35160
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	emerge-info.txt app-laptop:pbbuttonsd-0.8.1a:20221116-141245.log emerge-history.txt environment etc.clang.tar.bz2 etc.portage.tar.bz2 logs.tar.bz2 temp.tar.bz2

Description Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2022-11-16 15:33:51 UTC

checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-pkg-config... /usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for smbios/SystemInfo.h... no
configure: error: SMBios library not available. Please install development files for libsmbios.

!!! Please attach the following file when seeking support:

  -------------------------------------------------------------------

  This is an unstable amd64 chroot image at a tinderbox (==build bot)
  name: 17.1_desktop_systemd-j4-20221116-060010

  -------------------------------------------------------------------

gcc-config -l:
 [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-12 *
clang/llvm (if any):
clang version 15.0.4
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /usr/lib/llvm/15/bin
Configuration file: /etc/clang/clang.cfg
/usr/lib/llvm/15
15.0.4
Python 3.10.8
Available Ruby profiles:
  (none found)
Available Rust versions:
  [1]   rust-bin-1.65.0 *
php cli (if any):

  HEAD of ::gentoo
commit 2e5659031a1670ec8637884e7dee0516dc379875
Author: Repository mirror & CI <repomirrorci@gentoo.org>
Date:   Wed Nov 16 13:31:54 2022 +0000

    2022-11-16 13:31:54 UTC

emerge -qpvO app-laptop/pbbuttonsd
[ebuild  N    ] app-laptop/pbbuttonsd-0.8.1a  USE="acpi alsa macbook -doc -ibam -oss"

Comment 1 Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2022-11-16 15:33:52 UTC

Created attachment 833003 [details]
emerge-info.txt

Comment 2 Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2022-11-16 15:33:56 UTC

Created attachment 833005 [details]
app-laptop:pbbuttonsd-0.8.1a:20221116-141245.log

Comment 3 Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2022-11-16 15:33:57 UTC

Created attachment 833007 [details]
emerge-history.txt

Comment 4 Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2022-11-16 15:33:58 UTC

Created attachment 833009 [details]
environment

Comment 5 Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2022-11-16 15:33:59 UTC

Created attachment 833011 [details]
etc.clang.tar.bz2

Comment 6 Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2022-11-16 15:34:01 UTC

Created attachment 833013 [details]
etc.portage.tar.bz2

Comment 7 Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2022-11-16 15:34:02 UTC

Created attachment 833015 [details]
logs.tar.bz2

Comment 8 Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2022-11-16 15:34:03 UTC

Created attachment 833017 [details]
temp.tar.bz2

Comment 9 Fat-Zer 2024-02-03 04:44:09 UTC

The bug is triggered by USE=macbook, which requires sys-libs/libsmbios. But it requires the C++ version of the lib, which was dropped by upstream[1].

I'd suggest to drop the macbook USE unless anybody provides a patch to use the C version of libsmbios.

[1]: https://github.com/dell/libsmbios/issues/27