Re: libxml2 Port Blocking Upgrades

From: Mark Tinka <mark_at_tinka.africa>
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 05:09:37 UTC

On 4/7/22 01:22, Kevin Oberman wrote:

>
> I don't think that 262853 is the source of the problem, though I'm not 
> sure from the provided information. A build with MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE and 
> some earlier bit of the log MIGHT make this clearer.

I tried this, and the issue was exactly the same.


> As far as I can tell, the libxml2 port does not install any .a libs, 
> only the shareables (.so).

True. On systems that were not affected by this, no .a libs exist. On 
others that are, .a libs are being looked for, and since they don't 
exist, the update stops.


>
> In any case, I re-installed libxslt one minute and 25 seconds after 
> the libxml2 commit with no issues on my 13-Stable system.

I tried this and it didn't work either. libxslt is still looking for 
libxml2.a

Mark.