spice-gtk @0.42_0+x11: Fails to build on Sonoma

[janmuennich (Jan Münnich)]

spice-gtk @0.42_0+x11 fails to build on Sonoma. See attached log.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The log says:

ld: warning: -undefined error is deprecated
ld: warning: ignoring -e, not used for output type
ld: unknown file type in '/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_gnome_spice-gtk/spice-gtk/work/spice-gtk-0.42/src/spice-glib-sym-file'
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

I wonder what the file type of spice-glib-sym-file is.

[janmuennich (Jan Münnich)]

Sorry, what do you mean with file type? It's a text file with some components(?) listed. See attached.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to janmuennich:

Sorry, what do you mean with file type?

I don't know. I was merely responding to the vague error message "unknown file type". It made me assume there must be some type of file the linker was looking for, and what it was provided with was not that type of file. So I was wondering what type of file it was provided with and what type of file it was looking for.

It's a text file with some components(?) listed. See attached.

Is that a type of file that a linker would typically understand? I don't know that either.

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

The issue is that src/meson.build in the spice-gtk source tree passes -export-symbols spice_client_glib_syms_path to the linker, but the macOS linker does not seem to accept that option. There is an option in the manpage called -exported-symbols-list that accepts a filename and might work instead.

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

Seems to me like we need a backport of ​https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-gtk/-/commit/1511f0ad5ea67b4657540c631e3a8c959bb8d578. See also ​https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-gtk/-/issues/169.

PR at ​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/21187.

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

In 4087414847e6cf82ba9af84fa87ec2cf2146c926/macports-ports (master):

spice-gtk: Fix build failure with recent toolchain

No revbump because this either builds correctly, or not at all.

Closes: #68284

[janmuennich (Jan Münnich)]

I can confirm that the issue is resolved. Thanks neverpanic!