[oe] QA issue with staging (workdir) for .la files in xmlrpc-c package

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/12/23 Martin Panter <vadmium+floss at gmail.com>:
> Hi all
>
> I'm having trouble building "xmlrpc-c", which I think is required for
> rtorrent. It's failing at the "do_qa_staging" stage with the messages
> such as "QA Issue with staging: libxmlrpc.la failed sanity test
> (workdir)".
>
> I gather the issue is that my sysroots/*/usr/lib/libxmlrpc.la file has
> the following, which mentions the tmp/work/ directory:
>
> # Libraries that this one depends upon.
> dependency_libs=' -L.libs
> -L/media/disk/home/vadmium/proj/aegle/build/tmp/work/armv7a-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/xmlrpc-c-1.06.41-r1/xmlrpc-c-1.06.41/src/../lib/libutil/.libs
> -lxmlrpc_util -lxml2 -lz -lm'
>
> So looks like another Libtool issue. But I'm stuck this time so if
> anyone has any hints that would be awesome. For instance why does that
> -L. . ./tmp/work/. . . component get there, and perhaps is there some
> Libtool option to prevent or fix it?
>
> I think the xmlrpc-c packages has its own version of Libtool (1.3.4?).
> I tried coaxing the build process to use OE's Libtool version
> (EXTRA_OEMAKE = "LIBTOOL='${HOST_SYS}-libtool'", after the import
> line, in the recipe file), but this didn't seem to help.
>
> Previously I thought I had another "QA issue" with this xmlrpc-c
> package, something about a "hash style", which I thought I solved by
> passing LADD='${LDFLAGS}' to the Make command. But recently when I
> removed this change I am not getting the earlier "hash style QA
> issue"; only this newer "workdir" one. But I may be confused.
>
> -Martin
>
> These are the full messages taken straight from log.do_qa_staging file
> with awesome-long path names:
>
> ERROR: QA Issue with staging: libxmlrpc.la failed sanity test
> (workdir) in path
> /media/disk/home/vadmium/proj/aegle/build/tmp/sysroots/armv7a-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/usr/lib
> ERROR: QA Issue with staging: libxmlrpc_server_abyss.la failed sanity
> test (workdir) in path
> /media/disk/home/vadmium/proj/aegle/build/tmp/sysroots/armv7a-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/usr/lib
> ERROR: QA Issue with staging: libxmlrpc_server.la failed sanity test
> (workdir) in path
> /media/disk/home/vadmium/proj/aegle/build/tmp/sysroots/armv7a-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/usr/lib
> ERROR: QA Issue with staging: libxmlrpc_server_cgi.la failed sanity
> test (workdir) in path
> /media/disk/home/vadmium/proj/aegle/build/tmp/sysroots/armv7a-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/usr/lib
> ERROR: QA Issue with staging: libxmlrpc_client.la failed sanity test
> (workdir) in path
> /media/disk/home/vadmium/proj/aegle/build/tmp/sysroots/armv7a-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/usr/lib
> FATAL: QA staging was broken by the package built above
>
> _______________________________________________


I *think* I've rebuild rtorrent yesterday. for beagleboard/minimal.
Didn't get the error. Can't verify things right now. Feel frree to
ping me this evening on irc (roughly 18.00-22.00 gmt) or tomorrow
during the day)
What libtool are you using? and is this on git head ?

Frans