extconf.rb doesn't find libgit2 from GNU Guix

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#955 opened on Mar 20, 2023 2 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 3/5
Estimated time: 1-2 days
Newbie friendliness: 35/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: git, ruby
Domain: build-system

Research direction

Start with ext/rugged/extconf.rb around line 69 and reproduce the reported gem install and pkg-config behavior in the GNU Guix environment. Compare the detected paths with the libgit2 prefix and the shown pkg-config output; done means the issue's prefix-discovery path works without manually patching LIBGIT2_DIR.

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Hello!

Based on my understanding of: https://github.com/libgit2/rugged/blob/6379f23cedd5f527cf6a5c229627e366b590a22d/ext/rugged/extconf.rb#L69, it should find the libgit2 prefix (LIBGIT2_DIR) using either a --with-git2-dir=$my-prefix passed to gem install, or automatically via pkg-config.

Neither works on my system, so I had to resort to manually patching LIBGIT2_DIR. pkg-config is available in the build environment and:

$ pkg-config --cflags libgit2
-I/gnu/store/agd3gdj1nhpq4w1hyfnhya66m9qlqfdk-libgit2-1.5.1/include -I/gnu/store/aj9iv9xfxb8bj8rg0r7v65xjh1skyb5k-openssl-1.1.1t/include -I/gnu/store/mqz2h2v1i7lx555yaz89sqd06kpgdr62-pcre2-10.37/include -I/gnu/store/v8d7j5i02nfz951x1szbl9xrd873vc3l-zlib-1.2.12/include

$ find /gnu/store/agd3gdj1nhpq4w1hyfnhya66m9qlqfdk-libgit2-1.5.1 -name version.h
/gnu/store/agd3gdj1nhpq4w1hyfnhya66m9qlqfdk-libgit2-1.5.1/include/git2/version.h

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