libxcb build fails on ubuntu 14.04

[John Wohlbier]

Towards building openspeedshop I am tripping on libxcb. Ubuntu 14.04, gcc 4.8.4

Failure of libxcb:

checking if /home/wohlbier/devel/packages/spack/lib/spack/env/gcc/gcc -std=gnu99 supports -Werror=attributes... yes

Package xorg-macros was not found in the pkg-config search path.

Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xorg-macros.pc'

to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable

No package 'xorg-macros' found

checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes

checking whether to build developer documentation... yes

checking for doxygen... no

configure: WARNING: doxygen not found - documentation targets will be skipped

configure: WARNING: dot not found - doxygen targets will be skipped

checking for CHECK... no

checking for XCBPROTO... yes

checking for NEEDED... no

configure: error: Package requirements (pthread-stubs xau >= 0.99.2) were not met:

No package 'pthread-stubs' found

No package 'xau' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you

installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables NEEDED_CFLAGS

and NEEDED_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.

See the pkg-config man page for more details.

In spack/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libxcb/package.py I see

    # depends_on('pthread')    # Ubuntu: apt-get install libpthread-stubs0-dev

    # depends_on('xau')        # Ubuntu: apt-get install libxau-dev

and indeed:

wohlbier@wohlbier-VirtualBox-14:~/devel/packages$ dpkg -s libpthread-stubs0-dev

Package: libpthread-stubs0-dev

Status: install ok installed

Priority: optional

Section: libdevel

Installed-Size: 40

Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-dev...@lists.ubuntu.com>

Architecture: amd64

Multi-Arch: same

Source: libpthread-stubs

Version: 0.3-4

wohlbier@wohlbier-VirtualBox-14:~/devel/packages$ dpkg -s libxau-dev

Package: libxau-dev

Status: install ok installed

Priority: optional

Section: libdevel

Installed-Size: 81

Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-dev...@lists.ubuntu.com>

Architecture: amd64

Multi-Arch: same

Source: libxau

Version: 1:1.0.8-1

Depends: libxau6 (= 1:1.0.8-1), x11proto-core-dev

Ideas?

Thanks.

jgw

[John Wohlbier]

I worked around it by patching configure.

wohlbier@wohlbier-VirtualBox-14:~/devel/packages/spack$ git diff

diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libxcb/package.py b/var/spack/repo

index b2543be..4582375 100644

--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libxcb/package.py

+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libxcb/package.py

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ class Libxcb(Package):

 

     def patch(self):

         filter_file('typedef struct xcb_auth_info_t {', 'typedef struct {', 'sr

+        filter_file('NEEDED="pthread-stubs xau >= 0.99.2"','NEEDED_CFLAGS=" "; 

 

 

     def install(self, spec, prefix):

Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>

Architecture: amd64

Multi-Arch: same

Source: libpthread-stubs

Version: 0.3-4

wohlbier@wohlbier-VirtualBox-14:~/devel/packages$ dpkg -s libxau-dev

Package: libxau-dev

Status: install ok installed

Priority: optional

Section: libdevel

Installed-Size: 81

Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>

Architecture: amd64

Multi-Arch: same

Source: libxau

Version: 1:1.0.8-1

Depends: libxau6 (= 1:1.0.8-1), x11proto-core-dev

Ideas?

Thanks.

jgw

[Todd Gamblin]

Hi John:

I think this is an artifact of the X11 stack in Spack being a little sparse.  Spack should probably have pthread-stubs, xau, and some others in the package archives. 

DJ: were you going to look into this?

-Todd

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[John Wohlbier]

a diff that actually works:

wohlbier@wohlbier-VirtualBox-14:~/devel/packages/spack$ git diff

diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libxcb/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libxcb/package.py

index b2543be..e4e53ec 100644

--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libxcb/package.py

+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/libxcb/package.py

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ class Libxcb(Package):

 

     def patch(self):

         filter_file('typedef struct xcb_auth_info_t {', 'typedef struct {', 'src/xcb.h')

+        filter_file('NEEDED="pthread-stubs xau >= 0.99.2"','NEEDED_CFLAGS=" "; NEEDED_LIBS="-lXau"','configure')

[Dhanannjay (DJ) Deo]

Hello Todd,

I adding few dependencies libpthread-stubs,  libXau,  xproto that build libxcb on linux in merge request for qt5.6.0. That pr also includes few more xcb-utils-* that are needed for qt. 

at https://github.com/LLNL/spack/pull/820/commits

Shall I separate the commits related with libxcb into another merge request ? that will be easy to review until qt gets finalized.

Thank you,

:) D'jay 

Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-dev...@lists.ubuntu.com>

Architecture: amd64

Multi-Arch: same

Source: libpthread-stubs

Version: 0.3-4

wohlbier@wohlbier-VirtualBox-14:~/devel/packages$ dpkg -s libxau-dev

Package: libxau-dev

Status: install ok installed

Priority: optional

Section: libdevel

Installed-Size: 81

Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-dev...@lists.ubuntu.com>

Architecture: amd64

Multi-Arch: same

Source: libxau

Version: 1:1.0.8-1

Depends: libxau6 (= 1:1.0.8-1), x11proto-core-dev

Ideas?

Thanks.

jgw

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[Todd Gamblin]

DJ:

I think we can wait until the Qt merge takes place.  If John wants to try that stuff out he can subscribe to your pull request in the meantime.  It sounds like the Qt stuff is almost ready to go, aside from Denis's review points. Is that correct?

-Todd

[Denis Davydov]

Hi all,

On Thursday, May 12, 2016 at 2:12:41 AM UTC+2, Todd Gamblin wrote:

subscribe to your pull request in the meantime.  It sounds like the Qt stuff is almost ready to go, aside from Denis's review points. Is that correct?

Most of them are addressed already, but there are a couple left.

I look forward to having a working Qt in Spack.

Regards,

Denis. 

[John Wohlbier]

Great. Glad it could help someone else.

Somebody asked me to issue a PR for it, but it doesn't seem like patching the configure file is a very robust fix, and there are people working on putting the required libraries into spack, so I passed.

I did run into another issue building openspeedshop, and that is libmonitor did not exist at the URL given in package.py. I fixed that and issued a PR for it. I finally have a oss build and am running an mpi trace ;)

jgw

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Jim Galarowicz <j...@krellinst.org> wrote:

Hi John,

I just ran into the same issue on Fedora.   Your patch fixed the issue on Fedora.

Thanks!

Jim G

Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-dev...@lists.ubuntu.com>

Architecture: amd64

Multi-Arch: same

Source: libpthread-stubs

Version: 0.3-4

wohlbier@wohlbier-VirtualBox-14:~/devel/packages$ dpkg -s libxau-dev

Package: libxau-dev

Status: install ok installed

Priority: optional

Section: libdevel

Installed-Size: 81

Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-dev...@lists.ubuntu.com>

Architecture: amd64

Multi-Arch: same

Source: libxau

Version: 1:1.0.8-1

Depends: libxau6 (= 1:1.0.8-1), x11proto-core-dev

Ideas?

Thanks.

jgw

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[Jim Galarowicz]

Hi John,

I just ran into the same issue on Fedora.   Your patch fixed the issue on Fedora.

Thanks!

Jim G

On 05/11/2016 10:00 AM, John Wohlbier wrote:

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[Jim Galarowicz]

Hi John,

I didn't run into the libmonitor issue because I already had it installed.   I wonder if our patches will still apply cleanly.
I will uninstall and test this.   libmonitor maintainers have not accepted our patches, so we have to drag them along.

Thanks,
Jim G

[John Wohlbier]

I believe the patches applied cleanly. I set the git hash to correspond to the 20130218 version here

https://github.com/HPCToolkit/libmonitor/commit/4f2311e413fd90583263d6f20453bbe552ccfef3

[Elizabeth F]

John,

I still recommend submitting the patch, especially now that others have had good experience with it too.  In the package.py file, just make the patch specific to the exact version of libxcb that you downloaded.  That tarball is checksummed, so we know it will never change.  Your patch won't fix futures versions of libxcb, which might have a different configure script.  But it will make life easier for anyone building Qt today, which I think is a worthy contribution.

-- Elizabeth

[John Wohlbier]

Ok, I can do it. I won't know what the error will look like if an Ubuntu or Fedora user does not actually have libXau installed, and don't really have time to try out such a scenario.

jgw

On Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 9:12:25 AM UTC-6, John Wohlbier wrote:

Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>

Architecture: amd64

Multi-Arch: same

Source: libpthread-stubs

Version: 0.3-4

wohlbier@wohlbier-VirtualBox-14:~/devel/packages$ dpkg -s libxau-dev

Package: libxau-dev

Status: install ok installed

Priority: optional

Section: libdevel

Installed-Size: 81

Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>

Architecture: amd64

Multi-Arch: same

Source: libxau

Version: 1:1.0.8-1

Depends: libxau6 (= 1:1.0.8-1), x11proto-core-dev

Ideas?

Thanks.

jgw