[package] ninja/1.9.0: Incompatible ABI for GCC 4.9

[uilianries]

When building installer packages (cmake, bison, ninja, meson ...) sometimes we have a problem related to the C library version which is incompatible to the present in the current Docker image. In the past, Bincrafters opted to use CentOS6 which solved 99% of cases, but now we using Ubuntu 16.04 (GCC5) which is failing when we need to build a package with GCC 4.9 because conanio/gcc49 is Ubuntu 14.04.

Suggestion, identify installer packages and use a old Linux distro when building, CentOS6 for instance

/cc @ericLemanissier

Package and Environment Details (include every applicable attribute)

• Package Name/Version: ninja/1.9.0
• Operating System+version: Linux Ubuntu 18.04
• Compiler+version: GCC 4.9
• Docker image: conanio/gcc49
• Conan version: conan 1.21.0
• Python version: Python 3.8

Conan profile (output of conan profile show default or conan profile show <profile> if custom profile is in use)

[settings]
arch=x86_64
arch_build=x86_64
build_type=Release
compiler=gcc
compiler.libcxx=libstdc++
compiler.version=4.9
os=Linux
os_build=Linux
[options]
libdrm:shared=True
[build_requires]
[env]

Steps to reproduce (Include if Applicable)

• Run Docker conanio/gcc49
• Build a project which requires Ninja as build_requires (e.g. libdrm)

Logs (Include/Attach if Applicable)

https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-libdrm/runs/379290528

[ericLemanissier]

this is the continuation of https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/issues/213

[Croydon]

I guess the core question is: How can we identify installer packages automatically?

[uilianries]

IIRC Conan center hook is able to do it, it checks if os_arch and build_arch are declared only

[uilianries]

That's it: https://github.com/conan-io/hooks/blob/master/hooks/conan-center.py#L131

[ericLemanissier]

Another take on this problem could that this line is the cause of the bug, but it would only solve stdlib abi issue, not glibc abi issues.

[Croydon]

That's it: https://github.com/conan-io/hooks/blob/master/hooks/conan-center.py#L131

The problem is that sometimes we do have more settings for the build process, which are only getting deleted in package(). So we can't know before a build for sure that it is an installer

[uilianries]

That's it: https://github.com/conan-io/hooks/blob/master/hooks/conan-center.py#L131

The problem is that sometimes we do have more settings for the build process, which are only getting deleted in package(). So we can't know before a build for sure that it is an installer

That's true, it's fragile, maybe we can check it based on package_id

[uilianries]

fixed by #2062