Re: [PATCH V4 8/8] libgpiod: Integrate building of rust bindings with make

[Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 11:48:24AM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 27-07-22, 10:59, Kent Gibson wrote:
> > Wouldn't build for me on a Debian bullseye VM.
> > Apparently bindgen requires clang to find the system headers [1][2],
> 
> Right.
> 
> > and
> > there is no dep check or warning about that.
> 
> Ahh, I need to add that somewhere then.
> 
> > Also not sure why the build wanted bindgen, as by default it uses the
> > pre-generated bindings?
> 
> Did you enable tests as well ? That enables "gpiosim", which enables "generate"
> and bindgen will be required.

Ahh, yeah I do --enable-tests as well.

> 
> I thought it will be better to build bindings everytime for tests.
> 

So you can't run tests on those platforms where bindgen is problematic?

> > Anyway, for reference this was the build error without clang installed:
> 
> Did it work for you after clang was installed ?
> 

Yeah, all good once clang was installed.

Cheers,
Kent.

> > 
> > ...
> >    Compiling thiserror v1.0.31
> >    Compiling libgpiod-sys v0.1.0 (/home/dev/libgpiod/bindings/rust/libgpiod-sys)
> > error: failed to run custom build command for `libgpiod-sys v0.1.0 (/home/dev/libgpiod/bindings/rust/libgpiod-sys)`
> > 
> > Caused by:
> >   process didn't exit successfully: `/home/dev/libgpiod/bindings/rust/target/release/build/libgpiod-sys-0fb8ce8170c88d8f/build-script-build` (exit status: 101)
> >   --- stdout
> >   cargo:rerun-if-changed=wrapper.h
> >   cargo:rerun-if-changed=../../../lib/chip.c
> >   cargo:rerun-if-changed=../../../lib/chip-info.c
> >   cargo:rerun-if-changed=../../../lib/edge-event.c
> >   cargo:rerun-if-changed=../../../lib/info-event.c
> >   cargo:rerun-if-changed=../../../lib/internal.c
> >   cargo:rerun-if-changed=../../../lib/line-config.c
> >   cargo:rerun-if-changed=../../../lib/line-info.c
> >   cargo:rerun-if-changed=../../../lib/line-request.c
> >   cargo:rerun-if-changed=../../../lib/misc.c
> >   cargo:rerun-if-changed=../../../lib/request-config.c
> >   cargo:rerun-if-changed=../../../tests/gpiosim/gpiosim.c
> >   cargo:rerun-if-changed=gpiosim_wrapper.h
> >   cargo:rustc-link-lib=kmod
> >   cargo:rustc-link-lib=mount
> > 
> >   --- stderr
> >   /usr/include/string.h:33:10: fatal error: 'stddef.h' file not found
> >   /usr/include/string.h:33:10: fatal error: 'stddef.h' file not found, err: true
> >   thread 'main' panicked at 'Unable to generate bindings: ()', libgpiod-sys/build.rs:42:10
> 
> -- 
> viresh