Packaging OpenStack client fails due to non-standard header

[Christian Hergert]

On 12/05/2016 06:50 PM, Gerard Braad wrote:
> re-trying to package up the OpenStack client using flatpak, but it
> fails the `pip install` due to a non-standard header [1]:
> 
>    bits/wordsize.h
> 
> when trying to compile the dependency for the package `netifaces`. The
> full output can be found here [2].
> 
> What can be done to fix this? I could pull and patch a local netifaces
> package, but I prefer to use a little hacks/workarounds as possible.
> 
> any suggestions?

You check that bits/wordsize.h is in the runtime like:

$ flatpak run org.gnome.Sdk
sh-4.3$ ls /usr/include/bits/wordsize.h
/usr/include/bits/wordsize.h

If you're using flatpak-builder, make sure you've set the "sdk" field to
the sdk and not the platform runtime (or you won't have headers to build
with). For example, here is a snippet from GNOME Builder's json manifest
for flatpak-builder.

{
    "app-id": "org.gnome.Builder",
    "runtime": "org.gnome.Sdk",      <-- you might have Platform here
    "runtime-version": "master",
    "sdk": "org.gnome.Sdk",          <-- but you still want Sdk here
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-- Christian