rpm: libtool: link: cannot find the library `/opt/local/lib/libpopt.la'

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

rpm fails to build on Mavericks, saying:

libtool: link: cannot find the library `/opt/local/lib/libpopt.la' or unhandled argument `/opt/local/lib/libpopt.la'

On Mavericks by default MacPorts deletes .la files because they are thought not to be generally useful and cause some problems, but apparently rpm's build system specifically looks for libpopt's (nonexistent) .la file. Perhaps the rpm build system can be patched to not do that. It's also conceivable that this is a bug in popt somehow but I didn't find any occurrences of ".la" in the files the popt port installs.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

It's definitely the rpm port's fault, specifically the file patch-configure which has these sections:

@@ -27309,8 +27309,8 @@
 if test $ac_cv_lib_popt_poptGetContext = yes; then
 
       WITH_POPT_SUBDIR=
-      WITH_POPT_INCLUDE=
-      WITH_POPT_LIB="-lpopt"
+      WITH_POPT_INCLUDE='-I${prefix}/include'
+      WITH_POPT_LIB='${prefix}/lib/libpopt.la'
 
 fi
 
@@ -27545,8 +27545,8 @@
 _ACEOF
 
     WITH_SQLITE3_SUBDIR=
-    WITH_SQLITE3_INCLUDE=
-    WITH_SQLITE3_LIB="-lsqlite"
+    WITH_SQLITE3_INCLUDE='-I${prefix}/include'
+    WITH_SQLITE3_LIB='${prefix}/lib/libsqlite3.la'
     DBLIBSRCS="$DBLIBSRCS sqlite.c"
 
 fi

These were added in r26411 to "fix the linking issues with popt/sqlite3" but I'm not sure what that means now. I would say the WITH_POPT_LIB/WITH_SQLITE3_LIB lines were better before the patch and should be changed back. I have not yet tested if this fixes the problem.

[eric.bryant@…]

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[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

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[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Couldn't we just use destroot.delete_la_files no in the meantime?

[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

Has duplicate #41742.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to egall@…:

Couldn't we just use destroot.delete_la_files no in the meantime?

But that would have to be done in the popt port, which would then have to be rebuilt. I'd rather fix the actual bug, which is in the rpm port.

[phung.gary@…]

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[apapia@…]

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[mat.boniface@…]

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[viktor@…]

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[viktor@…]

Are there any work arounds to get rpm installed?

[apapia@…]

Replying to viktor@…:

Are there any work arounds to get rpm installed?

I was able to install it with brew: brew install rpm

[mat.boniface@…]

Replying to viktor@…:

Are there any work arounds to get rpm installed?

I've successfully installed rpm 5.1

sudo port install rpm51

[afb@…]

The build doesn't work, now that MacPorts is deleting the libtool files at random.
The patch was added to avoid the build error when trying using an external library:

No rule to make target `-lpopt'

Probably also breaks static linking of anything trying to use librpm, but that's minor...
(since you need to include libiconv and libintl, in order to link against libpopt, that is)

[viktor@…]

Replying to mat.boniface@…:

Replying to viktor@…:

Are there any work arounds to get rpm installed?

I've successfully installed rpm 5.1

sudo port install rpm51

Thank you !!! It indeed works

[afb@…]

Port rpm51 (and rpm50) are replaced by rpm52, in case you didn't notice...

RPM 5.2 is obsolete, but upgrading requires someone to care (see #38456)

[afb@…]

Fixed, r115687.