On Fri, Jul 04, 2025 at 10:38:46AM -0000, Laurent Cheylus wrote:
> 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.

But there's /usr/local/lib/liblzma.a for that...

> See issue https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/5572 and PR https://
> github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/5577

This remains entirely silent about the why. They just added a bandaid.