On 15 December 2014 at 13:02, ni...@openbsd.org <ni...@openbsd.org> wrote: > On 12/14/14 19:07, Kenneth Westerback wrote: >> On 14 December 2014 at 13:50, Nigel Taylor >> <njtay...@asterisk.demon.co.uk> wrote: >>> Time to remove GNOME I from ports, it's old and ancient, and not >>> maintained anymore. >>> >>> libghttp was the forerunner to libsoup and part of GNOME I, used to >>> speed up p5-libwww, provided by including www/p5-HTTP-GHTTP, a wrapper >>> around www/libghttp. This is the only remaining port using this GNOME I >>> library. The dependency has lingered on but not used. >>> >>> Once p5-libwww has been updated, the www/p5-HTTP-GHTTP port can be >>> removed and then followed by www/libghttp. >>> >>> I been using p5-libwww without libghttp/p5-HTTP-GHTTP for sometime on amd64. >>> >>> Only asking for Ok / Comments on www/p5-libwww >>> >> >> Without commenting on technical desirability, although your >> justification seems plausible to me, I can say I would *love* to see >> this because p5-HTTP-GHTTP has been crapping out of my dpb builds for >> some weeks now for reasons I haven't figured out, beyond knowing it >> was related to libghttp. :-) >> >> .... Ken >> > Looking back at dpb logs p5-HTTP-GHTTP / libghttp built first time, 3 > time in a row, and can't recall ever having failed, doesn't mean I don't > believe your having problems. I have seen the same in my dpb builds with > other ports far too often, where you can't explain why they failed other > than using dpb. > > Removing p5-HTTP-GHTTP is likely to just shift the problem elsewhere. >
I wouldn't be surprised. No idea what it is about my environment that causes the problem, so it could easily migrate. I've even tried not using tmpfs for /tmp without any change. "checking for main() in -lghttp... libghttp not found" is what happens. Even though I can *SEE* libghttp is in place. Perhaps it's caught up in caching for somehow. I guess I could dial my bufcachepercent down from 90. And when I kick it into retrying by 'make clean' in /usr/ports/www/p5-HTTP-GHTTP and removing all the "*GHTTP*" logs, it eventually works even though the libghttp is untouched by anything in the meantime. Even if p5-HTTP-GHTTP is the *only* port I try to build with dpb it fails. Sigh. I'd be happy to move on to another problem child, just for variety. :-). .... Ken
