Bug 251939 - math/eigen3: does it really need a GL dependency?
Summary: math/eigen3: does it really need a GL dependency?
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: amd64 Any
: --- Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-kde (group)
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head...
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Reported: 2020-12-18 12:53 UTC by Igor Pavlov
Modified: 2021-02-20 21:16 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description Igor Pavlov 2020-12-18 12:53:12 UTC
In the ports r557839 commit the explicit GL dependency has been introduced to the math/eigen3.
Is it really required there?
It's now impossible to build math/eigen3 port on a headless host without X11.
Comment 1 Thierry Thomas freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-12-18 18:25:54 UTC
Hello,

GL is part of the option FULL. It is set by default, but can be deactivated: just run `make config' in the port directory.
Comment 2 Igor Pavlov 2020-12-18 19:21:30 UTC
Hi,
Yep, it works, but it's rather unobvious what the FULL option means and why a lightweight math library consumes mesa-libs.
Thanks.
Comment 3 Igor Pavlov 2020-12-18 19:27:15 UTC
Shouldn't the FULL option be implemented as another package with dependencies on eigen3, mesa-libs and so on?
Comment 4 Alex S 2020-12-19 04:17:02 UTC
(In reply to Thierry Thomas from comment #1)

There is no reason for a bunch of _header_ files to depend on libGL.so (a shared library). That port's Makefile should either depend on the relevant _header_ files or this "feature" should be dropped altogether.
Comment 5 Alex S 2020-12-19 04:33:43 UTC
(In reply to Alex S from comment #4)

Oh, wait. Those are dependencies for the unit tests, which the port doesn't _not_ build. What's the point of this exactly?
Comment 6 Thierry Thomas freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-12-19 11:36:05 UTC
(In reply to Igor Pavlov from comment #3)
Yes, it is possible to have a slave port if needed, either eigen3-lite or eigen3-full.
Comment 7 Alex S 2020-12-29 16:46:06 UTC
(In reply to Alex S from comment #5)

> Those are dependencies for the unit tests, which the port doesn't _not_ build.

Ahem.
Comment 8 Adriaan de Groot freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-01-01 22:27:12 UTC
Looking at the code (cloned from gitlab), OpenGL is used in two places:

- unsupported/test
- demos/opengl

The first one is "unsupported" which just means it is not part of the core-community release of Eigen; it's a user contribution. The package isn't even used unless specifically the option EIGEN_TEST_OPENGL is **also** set (defaults OFF). When it is used, um .. as far as I can tell there is one extra test that is built. There is no other change.

The second one is a Qt4-based demo; there is no Qt4.

Neither of these are reasons to make math/eigen3 depend on OpenGL; one could argue that you want to test everything, but the current setup is not doing that.
If finding OpenGL in a dirty build environment is somehow a problem, that should be used as a reason to **possibly** make it a dependency, but a more likely thing to do is to suppress finding it: CMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE is the right thing to do there.

**Consumers** of math/eigen3 that can use OpenGL should enable OpenGL in their own ports.
Comment 9 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-02-20 20:38:51 UTC
A commit references this bug:

Author: adridg
Date: Sat Feb 20 20:38:25 UTC 2021
New revision: 566187
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/566187

Log:
  Update math/eigen3 to latest upstream release

  Release notes are at
  	https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=ChangeLog#Eigen_3.3.9
  One of our patches was for issue 2011, which is resolved upstream,
  so that can go. The other patch is not needed anymore either.

  While here, drop the gl (USE=gl) dependency. This turned out to be
  needed for tests that aren't built anyway. I mini-exp-ran this by
  test-compiling all the things that showed fallout in the previous
  Eigen update.

  Referenced PR is about gl, not about updating Eigen.

  PR:		251939

Changes:
  head/math/eigen3/Makefile
  head/math/eigen3/distinfo
  head/math/eigen3/files/