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For LZMA it need need xz-static (AUR pkgbuild) but that need to be build without LTO (options=(!lto)) otherwise fail to build

For the records the package that depends on this had the last commit on 2022/07, is github archived since 2026/04 and had this unsolved issue with selinux on Arch https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-bootstrap/issues/12

I have just tested this pkgbuild and don't need pod2man

About zlib.a, the package zlib-static have been created on 2026-03, it is co-installable with zlib since it is only the static lib

License should be LGPL-2.1-or-later

If you are away you can add me as co-maintainer so I can fix the things with a minimal patch in your style even later today

About the warning; there are still several of them and you can replaces:

  ## Silence warnings that are due to old codebase.
  _no_cc_warnings=(
    #'address'
    #'attribute-warning'
    'deprecated-declarations'
    #'format-security'
    #'strict-aliasing'
    'unused-result'
  )
  _CFLAGSAPPEND=''
  for _no_cc_warn in "${_no_cc_warnings[@]}"; do
    _CFLAGSAPPEND+=" -Wno-error=${_no_cc_warn} -Wno-${_no_cc_warn}"
  done
  CFLAGS+=" ${_CFLAGSAPPEND}"
  CXXFLAGS+=" ${_CFLAGSAPPEND}"
  export CFLAGS
  export CXXFLAGS

With:

  # This disable showing all warning
  export CFLAGS+=" -w"
  export CXXFLAGS+=" -w"

Which is more effective

About LZMA, very likely need xz-static (AUR pkgbuild) however there are other issues by enabling it

@a821: Thanks for the notice. I will check in a few weeks, currently on travel.

Please do not file a deletion request just because of pod2man issue when I am still willing to check for it, just not now.

@dreieck: Does this package still needs pod2man? just FYI someone requested deletion for it, see this thread.

The static .a library has now been dropped from zlib as well.

If this package needs it, it should depend on a separate, to-be-created, package zlib-staticlib or so that provides the zlib.a file.

Regards!

Ahoj @RAMChYLD,

Having some issues building.

I see the same.

Apparently zlib-ng with zlib-ng-compat is not being recognized as a usable zlib. Is this supposed to be correct?

Seems that a static library (.a) is needed, which is not installed by zlib-ng or zlib-ng-compat. Only dynamic librarys (.so) are installed.

So you have to go with zlib then.

Having some issues building.

Apparently zlib-ng with zlib-ng-compat is not being recognized as a usable zlib. Is this supposed to be correct?

checking for fgetfilecon in -lselinux... yes
checking for library containing xdrmem_create... -ltirpc
checking where to find <rpc/rpc.h>... -I/usr/include/tirpc
checking for static LIBC... yes
checking for static LZMA... no
yes
checking for static ZLIB... no
configure: error: static ZLIB is required in order to build virt-sandbox-init-qemu
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
 -> error making: libvirt-sandbox-exit status 4
==> Making package: virt-bootstrap-git r153.8a7e752-1 (Thu May  1 22:03:34 2025)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Missing dependencies:
  -> libvirt-sandbox
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> ERROR: Could not resolve all dependencies.
 -> error making: virt-bootstrap-git-exit status 8
 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required:

looking for conflicting packages...
:: zlib-1:1.3.1-2 and zlib-ng-compat-2.2.4-1 are in conflict. Remove zlib-ng-compat? [y/N] n
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: zlib-1:1.3.1-2 and zlib-ng-compat-2.2.4-1 are in conflict

Ahoj @patlefort,

Thanks for the fixup, it also works for me.
Fix is added to the PKGBUILD.

But I still have to set --without-lzma, otherwise I get linking failure with

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llzma: No such file or directory

if anyone has an idea how to fix it, please report here.

Regards!

It can be worked around with the following patch to the PKGBUILD (to disable lzma):

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index b580557..4ff9cea 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 url="http://sandbox.libvirt.org/"
 license=('LGPL')
 depends=('libvirt-glib' 'libselinux' 'cpio')
-makedepends=('gobject-introspection' 'intltool' 'pod2man' 'rpcsvc-proto' 'xz-static')
+makedepends=('gobject-introspection' 'intltool' 'pod2man' 'rpcsvc-proto')
 optdepends=('dhclient: for sandbox network configuration using DHCP')
 source=(
     http://libvirt.org/sources/sandbox/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz{,.asc}
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ prepare() {
   cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
   patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/0001-builder-Use-prefix-to-identify-lib-path.patch"
   patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/0002-Use-boot-vmlinuz-linux-as-default-kernel-path.patch"
+  sed -i 's/as_fn_error $? "static LZMA is required/###/' 'configure'
 }

 build() {

As to why it's failing, I don't know yet. I can't link a simple test program like the configure script is trying to do so maybe something is wrong in the xz-static package.

Somehow it fails with

configure: error: static LZMA is required in order to build virt-sandbox-init-qemu

Even if xz-static is installed. Even with --disable-lzma.

If anyone has an idea how to fix it, please comment.

This package is BROKEN for now.