Comment 3 for bug 7613

Message-Id: <E1C0FzD-0000sA-CL@dual>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:51:59 +0200
From: Goswin Brederlow <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: libffi.la: wrong libdir setting

Package: libffi3-dev
Version: 1:3.4.1-7
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Hi,

libffi.la has the following libdir:

libdir='/usr/lib/../lib'

That cuases libtool to add the rpath option when linking against the
library which in turn prevents shlibs to work (since no package
contains /usr/lib/../lib/libffi.so) which in turn miscompiles
e.g. sablevm which in turn causes FTBFS for a lot of java packages.

MfG
 Goswin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-amd64
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE

Versions of packages libffi3-dev depends on:
ii gcc-3.4-base 3.4.1-7 The GNU Compiler Collection (base
ii libc6-dev 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Development Librari
ii libffi3 1:3.4.1-7 Foreign Function Interface library

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