`plld' refers to inexistent `pl'

[Roberto Bagnara]

Binary package hint: swi-prolog

Package: swi-prolog
Version: 5.6.14-1
Severity: important

Even though the SWI-Prolog executable is installed as `swipl', the
`plld' program has not been properly configured as it refers to `pl'.
Here is an example:

$ plld -v -cc gcc -c++ g++
-ld g++ -ld-options`echo '' -g -O2 -frounding-math -W
-Wall | tr " " "/"` -o ppl_pl ppl_swiprolog.o ppl_pl.o
-L../../../src/.libs -lppl -L../../../Watchdog/src/.libs
-lpwl -lm -lgmpxx -lgmp
        eval `pl -dump-runtime-variables`
sh: pl: not found
*** plld exit status 11
$

As you can see, `plld' tries to evaluate `pl -dump-runtime-variables'
instead of `swipl -dump-runtime-variables'.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers gutsy-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'gutsy-updates'), (500, 'gutsy-security'), (500, 'gutsy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-14-generic (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages swi-prolog depends on:
ii libc6 2.6.1-1ubuntu9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgmp3c2 2:4.2.1+dfsg-5ubuntu4 Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii libncurses5 5.6+20070716-1ubuntu3 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libreadline5 5.2-3build1 GNU readline and history libraries

Versions of packages swi-prolog recommends:
pn swi-prolog-doc <none> (no description available)
pn swi-prolog-xpce <none> (no description available)

-- no debconf information

[Roberto Bagnara (bagnara)]

There is a simpler way to reproduce the problem:

$ plld whatever
sh: pl: not found
*** plld exit status 11
$

[lamby (lamby)]

Fixed in Debian, swi-prolog 5.6.48-1