Hi Theo and ports@,

On Fri, 4 Jul 2025 11:49:01 +0200, Theo Buehler wrote:

> I have not yet figured out why the lzma-sys build doesn't pick up the
> system-provided liblzma from archivers/xz via pkg-config. IOW, why we
> need the MODCARGO_CRATES_KEEP = lzma-sys to make the build succeed?

We need to keep xz sources to statically link liblzma for uv binary.
See issue https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/5572 and PR https://
github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/5577

Laurent