446902 – app-text/dvisvgm builds a useless static libpotrace

Bug 446902 - app-text/dvisvgm builds a useless static libpotrace

Summary: app-text/dvisvgm builds a useless static libpotrace

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	TeX project

URL:	https://bugs.launchpad.net/dvisvgm/+b...
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Blocks:	tc-directly
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Reported:	2012-12-11 18:03 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified:	2013-03-10 10:13 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2012-12-11 18:03:38 UTC

You receive this bug because this package does not respect my system's AR ( x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar - /usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar ) and calls directly ar - /usr/bin/ar
The possible solutions to fix this issue are:
1)Fix the buildsystem, if you can
2)inherit toolchain-funcs and use tc-export AR
3)inherit toolchain-funcs and use emake AR="$(tc-getAR)"


ar cru libpotrace.a curve.o trace.o decompose.o potracelib.o

Comment 1 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev

2013-02-21 19:21:23 UTC

different issue imho

it uses libpotrace from system but insists in building its own that will be thrown away...

Comment 2 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev

2013-03-10 10:13:35 UTC

fixed in 1.2

$ cat files/dvisvgm-1.2-external_potrace.patch 
Do not build potracelib if system potrace is being used.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/dvisvgm/+bug/1153182
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446902