Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (134 mails)

[Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 20:56 +0200, Sascha Manns wrote: 
> Hello Mates,
>
> atm i'm trying to fix an error in 
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=perl-Goo-
> Canvas&project=home%3Asaigkill%3Abranches%3Adevel%3Alanguages%3Aperl
>
> The same error comes in devel:languages.perl
>
> The Log (extract):
> + cd Goo-Canvas-0.06
> + /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
> Package goocanvas was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `goocanvas.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'goocanvas' found
>  at Makefile.PL line 52
> *** can not find package goocanvas
> *** check that it is properly installed and available in PKG_CONFIG_PATH
>  at Makefile.PL line 52
>
> But the goocanvas-devel package includes a *.pc:
> %files devel
> %defattr(-, root, root)
> %{_includedir}/%{name}-2.0/
> %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/*.pc
> %{_libdir}/*.so
> %doc %{_datadir}/gtk-doc/html/goocanvas2/

Hi Sascha,

Checking the goocanvas package from Factory 9openSUSE:Factory), the
'provides' list of goocanvas-devel shows:
> rpm -qp --provides goocanvas-devel-2.0.0-4.1.x86_64.rpm 
pkgconfig(goocanvas-2.0) = 2.0.0
goocanvas-devel = 2.0.0-4.1
goocanvas-devel(x86-64) = 2.0.0-4.1


=> thus, there is no longer goocanvas pkgconfig, but only goocanvas-2.0
(which is not focribly the same).

You can try patching the software to detect goocanvas-2.0 (in place of
goocanvas), but very likely there are bigger API changes, which
preceeded the change of the name.

AS a tip for your BuildRequires, for not having to haunt down -devel
packages with the right .pc files, simply do:
BuildRequires: pkgconfig(goocanvas-2.0)

If the package can be found, it will be installed or OBS will give you
the 'unresolvable' error. Either way, it helps you not having to go
through a full build cycle (which sometimes configure does not abort for
'optional' components).

Hope this helps,
Dominique

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