Bug#684070: libxml-libxml-perl: lack of error handling in build process means that if there is a problem broken packages are built (rather than a build failure)

[Alessandro Ghedini]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 07:18:18PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
> # test if the libraries are really installed!
> unless (have_library("xml2") or have_library("libxml2")) {
>     print STDERR <<"DEATH";
> libxml2, zlib, and/or the Math library (-lm) have not been found.
> Try setting LIBS and INC values on the command line
> Or get libxml2 from 
>   http://xmlsoft.org/
> If you install via RPMs, make sure you also install the -devel
> RPMs, as this is where the headers (.h files) are.
> 
> Also, you may try to run perl Makefile.PL with the DEBUG=1 parameter
> to see the exact reason why the detection of libxml2 installation
> failed or why Makefile.PL was not able to compile a test program.
> DEATH
> exit 0; # 0 recommended by http://cpantest.grango.org (Notes for CPAN Authors)
> }
> # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
> 
> I'm not sure I share this recommendation (for Debian) ...

This is also what happens when using Devel::CheckLib's check_lib_or_exit().
Should we fix the packages that use it too?

(list of "fix candidate" packages coming soon)

Cheers

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