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bug #61927: libpipeline 1.5.5 build fails against man-db 2.9.4

Submitter:  Matias A. Fonzo <selk>
Submitted:  Wed 26 Jan 2022 07:13:28 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Need Info
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Wed 26 Jan 2022 10:09:55 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Hi Colin!,

Our gdbm build provides both, the static and the shared libraries.

I upgraded libpipeline locally to version 1.5.5, omitting the static libraries and adding the shared ones, the same for man-db 2.9.4, and it worked as you say.

The reason why the goal was to have man-db as static, is so that its operation does not depend on libpipeline in a possible "crucial" situation, where the idea was to continue using `man`, for example.  Anyway, it is not serious to do it dynamically.

Now I wonder, why did it work before. Statically with libpipeline 1.5.4...

Matias A. Fonzo <selk>
Wed 26 Jan 2022 11:29:34 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Building libpipeline as a static library won't work.  I'm not sure it's even possible to control symbol visibility on static libraries since there's no way to control symbol visibility so internal symbols, but if it is then I don't think libpipeline knows how to do it, so the internal gnulib symbols used by both it and man-db are going to clash.

I see from your link line that you have libgdbm built as a shared library, so your system must support shared libraries.  Can you build libpipeline as a shared library instead and drop the static library?

Colin Watson <cjwatson>
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Wed 26 Jan 2022 07:13:28 AM UTC, original submission:  

Hello Colin,

This is Matías, the maintainer of Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre.

Development version of the distro is based on Musl, I upgraded to latest libpipeline 1.5.5 and trying to build man-db 2.9.4 against it, I receive errors.  I believe this comes from the gnulib version included in the libpipeline v1.5.5, those features may not be available at Musl.  However, this is the full log[1].

[1] http://sprunge.us/XLo27h


Matias A. Fonzo <selk>

 

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