Re: [ptxdist] pkg-config-wrapper issue

[Ladislav Michl <oss-lists@triops.cz>]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2022 at 06:14:34PM +0000, Richard OGrady wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We are using ptxdist 2022.07 and are building 2 packages, libimxvpuapi2 and libimxdmabuffer.
> libimxvpuapi2 depends on libimxdmabuffer and accordingly libimxvpuapi2.in selects libimxdmabuffer.

Those 'depends on' and 'select' are actual keywords used in *.in files
or just a description?

> The libimxvpuapi2 build fails during config.  The config file shows
> 
> Checking for 'libimxdmabuffer >= 0.9.0'
> ['/home/rich/imx6_3D104X_fsl6/Grayhill-iMX6/platform-3D50_std/sysroot-cross/bin/pkg-config', '--cflags', '--libs', 'libimxdmabuffer', '>=', '0.9.0']
> err: pkg-config: warning: blocking 'libimxdmabuffer': not selected by 'libimxvpuapi2'
> 
> So pkg-config-wrapper is blocking the libimxdmabuffer package.  The code that does this in pkg-config-wrapper is:
> 
>         for pkg in ${pkgs}; do
>            if [[ ! " ${whitelist} " =~ " ${pkg} " && ! "${pkg}" =~ '-uninstalled' ]]; then
>               echo "$(basename ${0}): warning: blocking '${pkg}': not selected by '${PKGCONFIG_WHITELIST_SRC}'" >&${ERROR_FD}
>               exit 1
>            fi
>        done
> 
> We can get rid of the issue by commenting out the code above in pkg-config-wrapper but it seems that then breaks some other packages.
> Libimxdmabuffer is version 1.1.2.  Both packages are using waf to build.
> 
> What could be going wrong?

It is a bit hard to tell without seeing actutal code, but from description
above I guess you created circular dependency which got dropped.

> Rich OGrady
> 
>