[debbugs-tracker] bug#31971: closed (meson-build-system uses 'patchelf' which fails on armhf-linux etc)

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regarding meson-build-system uses 'patchelf' which fails on armhf-linux etc
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> meson-build-system uses 'patchelf' which fails on armhf-linux etc
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> Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:50:53 -0400
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> 'meson-build-system' includes 'patchelf' as an implicit input for all
> packages that use it, and uses it from its 'fix-runpath' phase,
> sometimes directly and sometimes via (guix build rpath).
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> 'patchelf' is a nasty hack which seems to only work on Intel-based
> systems.  It certainly doesn't work on 'mips64el-linux', and when I last
> investigated it seemed hard to fix this.  As far as I can tell, it has
> never built successfully on 'armhf-linux' either:
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>   https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/patchelf-0.8.armhf-linux/all
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> I don't know about 'aarch64-linux'.
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> Given that 'meson-build-system' is seeing increased usage in some
> important packages, e.g. 'libinput' and several GNOME packages, this is
> becoming an increasingly serious problem for non-Intel platforms.
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>       Mark
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> Re: bug#31971: meson-build-system uses 'patchelf' which fails on armhf-linux etc
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> Wed, 09 Jan 2019 21:41:36 +0100
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> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
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> > 'meson-build-system' includes 'patchelf' as an implicit input for all
> > packages that use it, and uses it from its 'fix-runpath' phase,
> > sometimes directly and sometimes via (guix build rpath).
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> Since commit bf91e6835d21e3bd7b49bb85b40f61389604c6f7
> ‘meson-build-system’ no longer relies on PatchELF.
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> Closing!
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> Ludo’.
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