Sorry, one more thing: I should use out of source builds for all gnupg software (libgpg-error, libksba, etc)? It's fine if so, just want to check what the policy is.

Ah, thanks! I didn't know this was unsupported. I'll change what we're doing.

Thanks for your help @gniibe and apologies for wasting your time. It looks like this is an issue with ncurses on musl systems and I'll pursue it there. I have a patch to their configure which works & fixes building pinentry.

I've reported it on bug-ncurses@ to get some insight: https://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=166268018624805&w=2.

Mysteriously, I get nothing:

$ pkg-config --cflags nurses

It looks like there was a problem similar to this a while ago: https://dev.gnupg.org/T2320 where it turned out for unicode ncurses builds, a specific header had to be included, but that workaround seems to have been removed from pinentry since.

That's a fair point, cheers!

In T6161#162306, @ikloecker wrote:

I'm not sure I understand. If you don't want pinentries depending on libX11, then simply disable those pinentries with --disable-pinentry-qt5, etc. For Wayland it may make sense to allow disabling it.

Thanks! Interestingly didn't seem to work with 1.9.x but it does with 1.10x. Maybe I made some error when testing.

Okay, confirmed: I was just wrong and the build failure was only ever with --disable-asm (i.e. the log in this bug is the only relevant one). Patch works.

Thank you for your fast reply. My apologies - I should have thought to do that (share log with asm enabled)! But now I'm confused. I think the failure was only ever with asm disabled. I will check with somebody else tomorrow just to make sure though.

Full build.log:

After re-running myself a few times, I managed to hit it again. In tests/openpgp/report.xml, I see:

[...]
<testsuite name="&lt;keyboxd&gt;tests/openpgp/use-exact-key.scm" time="0" package="&lt;keyboxd&gt;tests/openpgp" id="0" timestamp="2022-04-25T16:18:27" hostname="unknown" tests="1" failures="0" errors="0" >
<properties/>
<testcase name="use-exact-key.scm" classname="&lt;keyboxd&gt;tests.openpgp" time="0" >
<failure message="Unknown error." />
</testcase>
<system-out>
Importing public key.
Checking that the most recent, valid signing subkey is used by default
    &gt; 8BC90111 3E880CFF F5F77B83 45117079 1EA97479 &lt;
Checking that we can select a specific signing key
    &gt; 8BC90111 F5F77B83 1EA97479 &lt;
</system-out>
<system-err>
</system-err>
[...]

Yeah, please do issue a new release as soon as possible if you can, as otherwise downstream we're in an awkward position where we have to rebuild everything without a SONAME bump, then do it again once the release is out.

In T5834#154975, @ikloecker wrote:

I assumed that changes to internal classes wouldn't break the ABI, but apparently the symbols were still exported. I'll keep this in mind for the next release.

FWIW, the internal class in question was completely rewritten. Since the damage has been done already, I'll close this report. We won't readd symbols to dead code. Sorry, for the inconvenience.

On behalf of @gyakovlev (pending approval for his account):

[03:05:23]  <@gyakovlev>  AC_DEFINE(HAVE_COMPATIBLE_CC_PPC_ALTIVEC,1,
[03:05:23]  <@gyakovlev>         [Defined if underlying compiler supports PowerPC AltiVec/VSX/crypto intrinsics])
[03:05:34]  <@gyakovlev> they should definitely check for __POWER8_VECTOR__ 1
[03:05:44]  <@gyakovlev> it's not plain altivec
[03:06:52]  <@gyakovlev> that power check should check for __POWER8_VECTOR__
[03:06:52]  <@gyakovlev> not only for what they check already.
[03:08:59]  <@gyakovlev> it probably should be checked after __powerpc64__ or instead of it.

Looks like it's triggered if e.g. -mcpu=power9 isn't in CFLAGS.

Build log here:

@jukivili Thanks for the reply! We've reverted that commit downstream in Gentoo as a temporary workaround, as due to some complications, our release systems needed to build without asm (for now) to ensure portability. Rest assured, this is not the default, and is discouraged for regular users.