Bug #1206
Audacious: cannot enable libarchive at configure time.
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Description
I tried to enable libarchive by adding --enable-libarchive when calling configure.
During the process, it prints on the console:
checking for libarchive... no
configure: error: Package requirements (libarchive) were not met:
Package 'iconv', required by 'libarchive', not found
Into the macro PKG_CHECK_MODULES() provided by aclocal, _PKG_CONFIG() is also used for testing the dependecies into *_LIBS.
Evidently, libarchive depends also on libiconv here.
But GNU Iconv does not provide a script for pkgconfig.
Both the latest version 1.17 of Libiconv and its development sources at Savannah have not it.
At the moment, I bypassed the problem by writing by hand an iconv.pc file, which allowed me to complete the configuration and make a successful build.
I tested this behaviour with the latest development sources of Audacious after release of version 4.3.
The build platforms are MinGW and CYGWIN.
History
#1
Updated by John Lindgren about 1 year ago
Updated by This seems like a libarchive packaging issue; do you have reason to believe otherwise?
#2
Updated by Carlo Bramini about 1 year ago
Updated by John Lindgren wrote:
This seems like a libarchive packaging issue; do you have reason to believe otherwise?
This is the content of libiconv provided by Arch Linux, just click the link inside the "Package Contents" section to open the drop-down list:
https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/libiconv/
and there is not a iconv.pc file to be used with pkg-config.
However, this issue seems to be related only to autotools configure, since Meson detects both libarchive and iconv correctly.
#3
Updated by John Lindgren about 1 year ago
- Status changed from New to Rejected
Carlo Bramini wrote:
and there is not a iconv.pc file to be used with pkg-config.
Right, so it is wrong for libarchive to declare (via pkg-config) a dependency on iconv.
See https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/1819.
Arch Linux patches out the iconv dependency from its libarchive package, for what it's worth:
https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/8609f0893f709461260da7f92dbcdd21ec85e287/trunk/PKGBUILD#L41
Closing since this is a libarchive issue.
