Bug#1019799: Proposed MBF: wxwidgets3.2 transition

[gregor herrmann]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2023 14:30:15 -0500, Scott Talbert wrote:

> It seems that libalien-wxwidgets-perl is failing its autopkgtests.  I looked
> at it, but I can't understand why it is failing.  Can you take a look when
> you have a chance?

Thanks for noticing!

Olly also saw it, and some people have already discussed on IRC.

The reason is simple:

# /usr/bin/ld: cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory
# collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
# 
# ATTENTION: It apperars 'gcc' is not a working compiler, please make
# sure all necessary packages are installed.

use.t runs '/usr/bin/perl -w -M"Alien::wxWidgets" -e 1 2>&1'
in a minimal chroot, libalien-wxwidgets-perl depends on gcc [0] but not
libc6-dev (which contains crti.o) …

We haven't decided yet what's the best way out:
- skip use.t
- s/gcc/g++/ (which would pull in libc6-dev at the cost of adding
  more dependencies for reverse dependencies of libwx-perl)
- and/or some more refined solutions around libwx-perl's runtime
  dependencies

I hope that either the night shift fixes the issue one way or
another, or we'll come to a conclusion tomorrow :)


Cheers,
gregor

[0] as a result of the same test failure some years ago: https://bugs.debian.org/784846

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