Test report by @boegel
FAILED
Build succeeded for 11 out of 12 (12 easyconfigs in this PR)
node2040.delcatty.os - Linux centos linux 7.6.1810, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz, Python 2.7.5
See https://gist.github.com/a0b765efdd9463e5e6f221f17deea176 for a full test report.

@akesandgren Gdk-Pixbuf-2.36.8-intel-2017a.eb fails now because the shared-mime-info is required now (pkg-config can't find it).

Can we avoid that requirement?

Don't know. I'll try to get to test building of it soon.

Doesn't look like it. But shared-mime-info is something we should probably have as an osdep. There's just so much on a system that depends on it...

I wonder how these worked in the first place since missing pkg-config causes them to basically fail at configure_step, all of them...

Hmm, we actually have shared-mime-info-1.8-4.el7.x86_64 installed.

I'll check on it again, it shouldn't have failed (and yeah, I guess we should include shared-mime-info as an OS dep).

Or we build our own, it's a simple configure-make-make install, see https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info/

The problem with that is that it might make things point for mime to the EB tree only, and stuff won't see OS installed stuff. There's no clear and obvious path forward here that I can see.

@akesandgren I just looked into the issue with shared-mime-info...

pkg-config --exists shared-mime-info fails because the system locations are not considered by the pkg-config we include as a build dep. We can fix that by adding the system locations via $PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

But in this particular case, the configure output gives the suggestion when the check for shared-mime-info failed to set $SHARED_MIME_INFO_LIBS and $SHARED_MIME_INFO_CFLAGS to avoid the need for using pkg-config to check for shared-mime-info.

The funny part is that both pkg-config --cflags shared-mime-info and pkg-config --libs shared-mime-info both yield nothing, so this works (not that those environment variables must be non-empty for this to work, so a single space is required):

preconfigopts = "export SHARED_MIME_INFO_LIBS=' ' SHARED_MIME_INFO_CFLAGS=' ' && "

Thoughts on including this too, perhaps even consistently across all these easyconfigs (even though only Gdk-Pixbuf-2.36.8-intel-2017a.eb actually shows this issue, for some reason unclear to me...

All versions of 2.36 from .8, at least, and forward that i've looked at tries to find shared-mime-info. SO for those it does make sense.

I can take a look at that in a while.

@akesandgren fixed with akesandgren#11

Test report by @boegel
SUCCESS
Build succeeded for 12 out of 12 (12 easyconfigs in this PR)
node2071.delcatty.os - Linux centos linux 7.6.1810, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz, Python 2.7.5
See https://gist.github.com/99eac6d40331fdac39e652323a753e76 for a full test report.

Going in, thanks @akesandgren!