Re: [gentoo-dev] Need help with sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.42.11 build failure

[Mike Gilbert]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@g.o> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I just add e2fsprogs{,-libs}-1.42.11 p.masked to our tree as I get a
> strange build failure in e2fsprogs-1.42.11:
>
> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -I. -I../../lib -I../../lib  -D_GNU_SOURCE
> -march=barcelona -mtune=barcelona -O2 -pipe -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> -I../../debugfs -c tst_libext2fs.c -o tst_libext2fs.o make[2]: *** No
> rule to make target '../../lib/libss.a', needed by 'tst_libext2fs'.
> Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory
> '/var/tmp/portage/sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.42.11/work/e2fsprogs-1.42.11/lib/ext2fs'
> Makefile:395: recipe for target 'all-libs-recursive' failed
>
> The above run was with MAKEOPTS set to -j1 to make sure it's not a
> parallel make issue.
>
> I already looked into the sources but I can't figure out where the
> problem comes from. Any help is highly appreciated.
>

This commit introduced a new test program (tst_libext2fs) which gets
build by default (see the "all" target).

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/commit/lib/ext2fs/Makefile.in?id=ceff962c67f19724e6fffe92adfdfff0cd462722

This program gets linked with DEPSTATIC_LIBSS, which defaults to $(LIB)/libss.a.

The e2fsprogs ebuild does not build $(LIB)/libss.a; it expects that to
have been build/installed by e2fsprogs-libs.

There is a sed statement in src_prepare which replaces most of these
LIBXX variables with references to the system libs (-lss). However,
this sed statement does not replace DEPSTATIC_LIBXX.