[Xapian-tickets] [Xapian] #837: Error compiling Ruby bindings with Ruby from Nixpkg

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#837: Error compiling Ruby bindings with Ruby from Nixpkg
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 Reporter:  Graeme Porteous         |             Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect                  |            Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal                  |         Milestone:  1.4.29
Component:  Xapian-bindings (Ruby)  |           Version:
 Severity:  minor                   |        Resolution:  fixed
 Keywords:                          |        Blocked By:
 Blocking:                          |  Operating System:  All
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Changes (by Olly Betts):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => fixed
 * milestone:   => 1.4.29

Comment:

 Oh sorry, I missed this when preparing 1.4.28 (released earlier today)
 because I'd failed to set the milestone.

 Thanks for the logs.  They don't show use of any unusual linker options,
 so it isn't that.

 Digging a bit, I found https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/8180 which
 seems to explain the situation - the one sentence summary is that macOS
 defaults to not allowing undefined symbols in this case, but you can
 select Linux-like behaviour with `-undefined dynamic_lookup`.

 It looks like libtool should be turning this option on for us and I'm not
 sure why that isn't working for you.  I can see that macOS-specific probes
 are getting run from your `configure.log`.

 However looking at the handful of Debian-packaged Ruby modules I have
 installed, they all are explicitly linked to libruby3.3 except for
 `_xapian.so`, so it seems that linking to libruby''X.Y'' unconditionally
 would better align us with Ruby norms so let's just do that.

 Fix applied to git master in a3ef56cdda871cd2f6794ec50d686207a2032ae4 and
 backported for 1.4.29 in
 6062f0031dd72998e848e7e3577886be1b6be2c7.  This should be functionally the
 same as the patch you linked to above, but if you're able to easy test
 please do.
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