Debian Build Failed

[JezerM]

This issue is a....

[ ] Bug
[x] Other kind of issue (Please describe in detail)

Current Behavior

Can't build i3lock-color in Ubuntu.
No package 'xcb-image' found

./install-i3lock-color.sh
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader --force
autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
autoreconf: Leaving directory `.'
mkdir: se ha creado el directorio 'build/'
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
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checking for pkg-config... /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for xcb xcb-xkb xcb-xinerama xcb-randr xcb-composite... yes
checking for xcb-image... no
configure: error: Package requirements (xcb-image) were not met:

No package 'xcb-image' found

Environment

Output of i3lock --version:

i3lock version: 2.11.1

Where'd you get i3lock-color from?

[ ] AUR package (which one?)
[x] Built from source yourself
[ ] Other (Please describe in detail)

And yes, I installed the recommended packages for Ubuntu 20.10 in README

[Raymo111]

What's the output of sudo apt search xcb-image?

[JezerM]

> sudo apt search xcb-image
Ordenando... Hecho
Buscar en todo el texto... Hecho
libxcb-image0/groovy,now 0.4.0-1build1 amd64 [instalado]
  utility libraries for X C Binding -- image

libxcb-image0-dev/groovy,now 0.4.0-1build1 amd64 [instalado]
  utility libraries for X C Binding -- image, development files

libxcb-image0 and libxcb-image0-dev are installed.

[Raymo111]

That's really strange. Ummm... it works for me on 20.04 LTS. Maybe try a reboot before you install?

[JezerM]

I rebooted, but the problem persists.
Btw, this message is showed after No package 'xcb-image' found:

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables XCB_IMAGE_CFLAGS
and XCB_IMAGE_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
make: *** No se especificó ningún objetivo y no se encontró ningún makefile.  Alto.
[sudo] contraseña para jezer:
make: *** No hay ninguna regla para construir el objetivo 'install'.  Alto.

Though, PKG_CONFIG_PATH env variable does not exist.

[Raymo111]

Yeah you might have to set that to something in an rc file. I'm not sure, you'll have to search around for a solution there. Sorry I can't be of much help, I just can't repro it.

[JezerM]

It seems .pc files are not shipped in debian packages as it's said here, so it's needed to install them from other sources.
So, right now, I successfully fixed the xcb-image problem with brew... Now, xcb-xrm is not found... I'm checking it.

[JezerM]

Ok, after a long research, I built it.
So, for those packages that are not recognized in the process, such as xcb-image or xcb-xrm, you would need to either install them from not Debian sources or build them from original sources.
xcb-image can be installed with brew with brew install xcb-util-image.
xcb-xrm is not in brew, and I couldn't find a great source so I had to build it from the original source.

Dependencies for xcb-xrm:

• libtool (install it with sudo apt install libtool)
• xorg macros (sudo apt install xutils-dev)

How to build xcb-xrm:

• First, clone it to wherever you want with --recursive flag.
• ./autogen.sh
• The .pc files are created.
• Add the xcb-util-xrm folder path to PKG_CONFIG_PATH: export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH/:[the folder absolute path]
• That's it. You can check it with the command pkg-config --list-all | grep "xcb-xrm"
• It's recommendable to add this path permanently, but I don't know how yet...

Finally, building i3lock-color

• Clone the repo wherever you want.
• chmod +x build.sh or chmod +x install-i3lock-color.sh to build and install.
• ./build.sh or ./install-i3lock-color.sh and hope nothing fails.
• Then, go to build folder, and make.
• That's all.

[Raymo111]

Good to know. ASan is a known issue, try compiling without it (you'll have to either do it manually or modify the script).

Edit: Since the previous comment has now been added as a tutorial to the readme, I've commented out some ASan errors that @JezerM was experiencing in his comment. Click on the dropdown beside "edited by" above the comment to read the original issues.

[JezerM]

I just ran ../configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-sanitizers as suggested in i3lock, and that solved my problem.

autoreconf --force --install

rm -rf build/
mkdir -p build && cd build/

../configure \
  --prefix=/usr \
  --sysconfdir=/etc \
  --disable-sanitizers

make

Thanks~

[Raymo111]

No problem. I've just included the --disable-sanitizers flag by default in the build script, so hopefully no one else sees any issues.