Package: rakudo Version: 2022.12-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Configuration of Rakudo packages puts `-lffi -ltommath -luv` in the "ldlibs" key of the "config" object which is used to build native code and this results in build and/or test failures when installing any packaging needing to do it -- which are very common in Rakudo ecosystem, as many common packages depend on them. E.g. it prevents installing LibXML or DBIish without --force-test. Please notice that while this system uses 2022.12 version of the package, I've checked that the latest available 2023.06-1~exp1 also behaves in the same way. AFAICS the problem comes from here: % /usr/bin/raku -e 'say $*VM.config<ldlibs>' -L/usr/local/lib -lffi -ltommath -luv -lm -lpthread -lrt -ldl To be compared with the upstream Rakudo packages: % /opt/rakudo/bin/raku -e 'say $*VM.config<ldlibs>' -lm -lpthread -lrt -ldl As "ldlibs" is used by e.g. compile_test_lib function used by the tests, all test code tries to link with the libraries listed above and so fails if they're not installed. Here is a slightly edited example of the problem: % zef install --install-to=home --verbose DBIish ===> Searching for: DBIish ===> Found: DBIish:ver<0.6.6>:auth<zef:raku-community-modules>:api<1> [via Zef::Repository::Ecosystems<fez>] ===> Searching for missing dependencies: NativeHelpers::Blob, NativeLibs:ver<0.0.9+>:auth<github:salortiz>, NativeCall::TypeDiag [...] ===> Extraction [OK]: NativeHelpers::Blob to $HOME/.zef/tmp/NativeHelpers%3A%3ABlob%3Aver%3C0.1.12%3E%3Aauth%3Cgithub%3Asalortiz%3E.tar.gz ===> Testing: NativeHelpers::Blob:ver<0.1.12>:auth<github:salortiz> [NativeHelpers::Blob] t/00-trivial.t .. ok [NativeHelpers::Blob] t/01-basic.t .... ok [NativeHelpers::Blob] t/02-cstruct.t .. Dubious, test returned 255 [NativeHelpers::Blob] All 35 subtests passed [NativeHelpers::Blob] t/03-pointer.t .. ok [NativeHelpers::Blob] t/99-my-meta.t .. ok [NativeHelpers::Blob] All tests successful. [NativeHelpers::Blob] [NativeHelpers::Blob] Test Summary Report [NativeHelpers::Blob] ------------------- [NativeHelpers::Blob] t/02-cstruct.t (Wstat: 65280 Tests: 0 Failed: 0) [NativeHelpers::Blob] Non-zero exit status: 255 [NativeHelpers::Blob] Parse errors: Bad plan. You planned 35 tests but ran 0. [NativeHelpers::Blob] Files=5, Tests=36, 1 wallclock secs [NativeHelpers::Blob] Result: FAILED ===> Testing [FAIL]: NativeHelpers::Blob:ver<0.1.12>:auth<github:salortiz> Aborting due to test failure: NativeHelpers::Blob:ver<0.1.12>:auth<github:salortiz> (use --force-test to override) Looking at the failure in more details it can be seen that it happens because libtommath is not available on my system (libffi happens to be already installed for unrelated reasons). Either lib{ffi,tommath,uv}-dev should be made dependencies of rakudo package or, preferably, it shouldn't include them in "ldlibs" in its config. Thanks in advance! -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-13-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C.utf8, LC_CTYPE=C.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C.utf8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages rakudo depends on: ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u3 ii libgraph-perl 1:0.9726-1 ii libipc-system-simple-perl 1.30-2 ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.144-1 ii moarvm 2022.12+dfsg-1 ii nqp 2022.12+dfsg-1 rakudo recommends no packages. Versions of packages rakudo suggests: ii valgrind 1:3.19.0-1 -- no debconf information