[Freewx-maint] Bug#786986: Wxwidgets webview link flags problem

[Olly Betts]

Control: severity -1 wishlist

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 01:17:14PM +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> As discussed in irc, wx-config actually has a wrong behaviour (Debian
> specific bug I guess) this is causing autoconf to behave wrongly [1]
> when webview is not available.

"As discussed on irc" isn't useful context for anyone except you and me,
and I can't really remember that discussion, except that I kept asking
you to open a bug with the details.

> Example (webview is *not* installed):
> 
> $ dpkg -s libwxgtk-webview3.0-dev
> 
> dpkg-query: package 'libwxgtk-webview3.0-dev' is not installed and no information is available
> 
> $ wx-config --libs webview
> -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -pthread   -lwx_gtk2u_webview-3.0 -lwx_baseu-3.0 
> 
> this is returning webview flags, causing a build failure.
>
> I don't know what should be the correct behaviour.

AFAICS, the build can't succeed, as a required dependency isn't installed.
So the build failing seems to be the correct behaviour to me.

> when called with multiple libraries it can strip the webview (patching
> around line 1247 of wx-config), but this makes the build fail

I don't see that as being an improvement.

Is your complaint that the error that the build fails with in this case
doesn't clearly point to the missing package as being the problem?

If so, it would be very useful to show how the build currently fails
in this case.

Cheers,
    Olly