[Xapian-tickets] [Xapian] #834: *BSD conditional to modify xapian-bindings/config.ac to suppress -lstdc++ library

[Xapian]

#834: *BSD conditional to modify xapian-bindings/config.ac to suppress -lstdc++
library
--------------------------+-------------------------------
 Reporter:  David Gessel  |             Owner:  Olly Betts
     Type:  defect        |            Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal        |         Milestone:  1.4.27
Component:  Build system  |           Version:  1.4.22
 Severity:  normal        |        Resolution:
 Keywords:                |        Blocked By:
 Blocking:                |  Operating System:  FreeBSD
--------------------------+-------------------------------
Comment (by Olly Betts):

 Perl bindings fail to load on OpenBSD:

 {{{
 #     Error:  Can't load '/root/xapian-
 bindings/perl/auto/Xapian/Xapian.so' for module Xapian: Cannot load
 specified object at /usr/libdata/perl5/amd64-openbsd/DynaLoader.pm line
 206.
 }}}

 Python too:

 {{{
 /usr/local/bin/python3 -O -c 'import os;os.chdir("xapian");import _xapian'
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
 ImportError: Cannot load specified object
 }}}

 So it seems none of the bindings actually work on OpenBSD in my CI job
 anyway.

 OpenBSD seems to package the Perl, Python and RUby bindings, but just
 patch out the addition of `-lstdc++`:

 https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/databases/xapian-
 bindings/patches/patch-configure_ac

 They don't seem to be doing anything special I can see:

 https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/databases/xapian-
 bindings/Makefile

 The `sed` expression they apply doesn't look like it does anything to
 current 1.4.x - it was added 6 years ago to "Allow building with ruby
 2.5"; not sure what the `-fdeclspec` stuff is about - it seems it was
 added for Ruby but I didn't get any issues with `__declspec` not being
 available so I think that's probably out of date too...

 (I do wish packagers would all feed patches upstream - it'd make
 everyone's lives simpler.)

 The vmactions stuff I'm using for CI runs everything as root inside a VM
 so I guess it could be a side effect of running as root.

 Anyway, it seems clear we should just remove the `-lstdc++` adding code
 completely.
-- 
Ticket URL: <https://trac.xapian.org/ticket/834#comment:6>
Xapian <https://xapian.org/>
Xapian