bug#41598: [staging] calibre build failure

[Marius Bakke]

Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org> writes:

> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
>
>> On the 'staging' branch (commit
>> 8a7a5dc7805f4628e60f90af6b2416f951d0c034), "calibre" fails to build:
>>
>> g++ -c -pipe -O2 -Wall -Wextra -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_PLUGIN 
>> -DQT_THEME_SUPPORT_LIB -DQT_FONTDATABASE_SUPPORT_LIB 
>> -DQT_SERVICE_SUPPORT_LIB -DQT_EVENTDISPATCHER_SUPPORT_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB 
>> -DQT_DBUS_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -I. -isystem 
>> /gnu/store/3x2kak8abb6z2klch72kfff2qxzv00pj-libpng-1.6.37/include/libpng16 
>> -isystem 
>> /gnu/store/haaam6v8l4s75mj9xmpb9gc78xk001y9-freetype-2.10.1/include/freetype2
>>  -isystem 
>> /gnu/store/59dq1n4wj3maa3kcar6hspj2zd82as7q-qtbase-5.14.2/include/qt5 
>> -isystem 
>> /gnu/store/59dq1n4wj3maa3kcar6hspj2zd82as7q-qtbase-5.14.2/include/qt5/QtThemeSupport
>>  -isystem 
>> /gnu/store/59dq1n4wj3maa3kcar6hspj2zd82as7q-qtbase-5.14.2/include/qt5/QtThemeSupport/5.14.2
>>  -isystem 
>> /gnu/store/59dq1n4wj3maa3kcar6hspj2zd82as7q-qtbase-5.14.2/include/qt5/QtThemeSupport/5.14.2/QtThemeSupport
>>  -isystem 
>> /gnu/store/59dq1n4wj3maa3kcar6hspj2zd82as7q-qtbase-5.14.2/include/qt5/QtFontDatabaseSupport
>>  -isystem 
>> /gnu/store/59dq1n4wj3maa3kcar6hspj2zd82as7q-qtbase-5.14.2/include/qt5/QtFontDatabaseSupport/5.14.2
>>  -isystem 
>> /gnu/store/59dq1n4wj3maa3kcar6hspj2zd82as7q-qtbase-5.14.2/include/qt5/QtFontDatabaseSupport/5.14.2/QtFontDatabaseSupport
>>  -isystem 
>> /gnu/store/59dq1n4wj3maa3kcar6hspj2zd82as7q-qtbase-5.14.2/include/qt5/QtServiceSupport
>>  -isystem 
>> /gnu/store/59dq1n4wj3maa3kcar6hspj2zd82as7q-qtbase-5.14.2/include/qt5/QtServiceSupport/5.14.2
>>  -isystem 
>> /gnu/store/59dq1n4wj3maa3kcar6hspj2zd82as7q-qtbase-5.14.2/include/qt5/QtServiceSupport/5.14.2/QtServiceSupport
>>  -isystem 
>> /gnu/store/59dq1n4wj3maa3kcar6hspj2zd82as7q-qtbase-5.14.2/include/qt5/QtEventDispatcherSupport
>>  -isystem 
>> /gnu/store/59dq1n4wj3maa3kcar6hspj2zd82as7q-qtbase-5.14.2/include/qt5/QtEventDispatcherSupport/5.14.2
>>  -isystem 
>> /gnu/store/59dq1n4wj3maa3kcar6hspj2zd82as7q-qtbase-5.14.2/include/qt5/QtEventDispatcherSupport/5.14.2/QtEventDispatcherSupport
>>  -isystem 
>> /gnu/store/59dq1n4wj3maa3kcar6hspj2zd82as7q-qtbase-5.14.2/include/qt5/QtGui/5.14.2
>>  -isystem 
>> /gnu/store/59dq1n4wj3maa3kcar6hspj2zd82as7q-qtbase-5.14.2/include/qt5/QtGui/5.14.2/QtGui
>>  -isystem 
>> /gnu/store/59dq1n4wj3maa3kcar6hspj2zd82as7q-qtbase-5.14.2/include/qt5/QtGui 
>> -isystem 
>> /gnu/store/59dq1n4wj3maa3kcar6hspj2zd82as7q-qtbase-5.14.2/include/qt5/QtCore/5.14.2
>>  -isystem 
>> /gnu/store/59dq1n4wj3maa3kcar6hspj2zd82as7q-qtbase-5.14.2/include/qt5/QtCore/5.14.2/QtCore
>>  -isystem 
>> /gnu/store/59dq1n4wj3maa3kcar6hspj2zd82as7q-qtbase-5.14.2/include/qt5/QtDBus 
>> -isystem 
>> /gnu/store/59dq1n4wj3maa3kcar6hspj2zd82as7q-qtbase-5.14.2/include/qt5/QtCore 
>> -I. -isystem 
>> /gnu/store/ka6amik38awpprjmbj01pnl9zsxgjjgz-libdrm-2.4.101/include/libdrm 
>> -I/gnu/store/59dq1n4wj3maa3kcar6hspj2zd82as7q-qtbase-5.14.2/lib/qt5/mkspecs/linux-g++
>>  -o main.o 
>> /tmp/guix-build-calibre-3.42.0.drv-0/calibre-3.42.0/src/calibre/headless/main.cpp
>> /tmp/guix-build-calibre-3.42.0.drv-0/calibre-3.42.0/src/calibre/headless/headless_integration.cpp:
>>  In constructor ‘HeadlessIntegration::HeadlessIntegration(const 
>> QStringList&)’:
>> /tmp/guix-build-calibre-3.42.0.drv-0/calibre-3.42.0/src/calibre/headless/headless_integration.cpp:61:5:
>>  error: ‘screenAdded’ was not declared in this scope
>>      screenAdded(mPrimaryScreen);
>>      ^~~~~~~~~~~
>> make: *** [Makefile:336: headless_integration.o] Error 1
>>
>> Presumably this can be fixed by updating to the latest version of
>> Calibre (4.17.0!).  Any takers?  :-)
>
> I started working on this.  It now needs 'python2-pyqtwebengine', but
> has some trouble because PyQt apparently really wants all the components
> (sip, pyqt, pyqtwebengine) to live in the same directory, and does not
> respect the standard search paths.
>
> The Calibre build script works if I run it in a 'guix environment -C',
> because that would set up a single union profile with all the packages.

As it turns out, the reason it worked in a container was not because of
the union profile.  That was just one of many red herrings in the strace
output...

Ultimately all it needed were TrueType fonts, which were available in my
container because of the fontconfig graft.

Update pushed in d79ec4fd343bc2a72652aa3a4b4ae14bd8df88ac.  \o/

Testers welcome!

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