Waf problems - nesciens/xmms2-wiki GitHub Wiki

Stale files

If you've used SCons or older versions of waf it might cause build strangeness.

Suggested ways of doing this:

git clean -d -x

or

cg-clean -dx

I get an undefined symbol and I used --conf-prefix

--conf-prefix prepends the -L and -I to the *FLAGS enviornments, so that when waf tries to use built copies to link binaries, it ends up using the local copies instead.

/usr/bin/gcc default/src/clients/cli/cmd_config.o default/src/clients/cli/cmd_mlib.o  default/src/clients/cli/cmd_other.o default/src/clients/cli/cmd_playback.o  default/src/clients/cli/cmd_pls.o default/src/clients/cli/cmd_status.o  default/src/clients/cli/cmd_coll.o default/src/clients/cli/common.o default/src/clients/cli/main.o  -o default/src/clients/cli/xmms2 -L/usr/local/lib -Ldefault/src/clients/lib/xmmsclient-glib  -Ldefault/src/clients/lib/xmmsclient -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib  -Ldefault/src/clients/lib/xmmsclient-glib -Ldefault/src/clients/lib/xmmsclient -L/usr/local/lib  -Wl,-Bdynamic -lxmmsclient-glib -lxmmsclient -lglib-2.0 -liconv

Notice how -L/usr/local/lib comes first here, so it ends up using the system copy of xmmsclient instead of the one it built and thus produces undefined symbols.

The solution to this is to not use --conf-prefix but rather to define CCFLAGS/CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS/CPPFLAGS/LINKFLAGS accordingly.

Configuration problems with distcc

If you set the CC and/or CXX environment variables to use distcc, you should explicitly set them with the appropriate compiler variables. For example:

CC="distcc" CXX="distcc"

might fail when Waf tries to build C++ code. To fix it, set:

CC="distcc gcc" CXX="distcc g++"