build-package.sh erroring with new TravisCI default distro

[mschuchard]

For Travis CI, the default distro of Trusty is currently being phased out in favor of Xenial. When testing a package on Xenial in Travis:

Running specs...
/home/travis/atom/usr/share/atom/atom: error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
The command "curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/atom/ci/master/build-package.sh | sh" exited with 127.

When I check for Atom's library links, I hit:

ldd `which atom`
not a dynamic executable

so I cannot seem to determine myself if this is a link target issue for Atom, or if a dependency needs to be added for TravisCI.

Thanks for any assistance/fix.

[kkopper]

I encountered the same problem. As described here, I just added libgconf-2-4 to the packages to be installed by apt.

addons:
  apt:
    packages:
    - build-essential
    - fakeroot
    - git
    - libsecret-1-dev
    - libgconf-2-4

Afterwards, the build script works like a charm.

[mschuchard]

Good stuff.
Can we please get this fix upstreamed?

[Arcanemagus]

I've opened atom/atom#19358 to get the dependency added to Atom proper.

[mschuchard]

Well that answers that question: this is a link target issue for Atom and not a TravisCI env issue. Good to know.

[Arcanemagus]

Note that Electron 3 (which just got merged to master, let's see if it makes it to a beta branch this time!) removes this requirement, so for the moment updating your CI scripts is the best option.

Interestingly I haven't seen this yet on any of the repositories I run through Travis CI.

[mschuchard]

My assumption to that end is that Travis has not migrated them yet. However, they have officially announced that Trusty is now deprecated.

[Arcanemagus]

Turns out that all of my repositories included this line, and thus weren't seeing the issue:

ci/.travis.yml

Line 37 in 25b0406

dist: trusty

[mschuchard]

At some point this started working on Xenial, so closing this issue.