Missing libX11 symlink breaks builds
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ia32-libs (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ia32-libs
This was reported about 2 years ago with regard to libqt breakage and rejected with a comment of "..we don't support 32 bit builds in Dapper". Well, here we are (2) major releases later and it is still a problem. Specifically, there is no symlink under /usr/lib32 from libX11.so.6 --> libX11.so. This neatly ensures that just about any X11 app one attempts to build will fail with a linker complaint of 'missing libX11'.
There are likely a number of other shared libs with missing links that will cause similar problems. Since these are created and present for all the 64-bit libraries, what possible justification can there be for not presenting the same layout in the 32-bit lib directories? A bit a google searching revealed all sorts of discussion threads in the pages for various open-source projects that referred to this exact underlying issue. A variety of hack-ish scripts are even floating around to create these symlinks post-install. If you truly do not intend for anyone to build 32-bit apps on an x86_64 Ubuntu system, then why provide a dual-mode compiler package? This is not defensible - sorry.
An official fix is LONG overdue!
| Matthias Klose (doko) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in ia32-libs: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
The distribution only includes the support needed to build packages in the distribution itself. Please look for "multiarch" how cross platform build support is planned (although it doesn't have a high priority).