Comment 11 for bug 6909

Message-ID: <20040706205859.GA10605@Zimmer>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 15:58:59 -0500
From: Drew Scott Daniels <email address hidden>
To: Goswin Brederlow <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>
Subject: dpkg-dev bug? Bug#256978: kaffe: Problem of the lib path

Hi,
Is this an unfiled bug on dpkg-dev and dpkg-cross? Should libtool be
fixed (libtool1.4 may not be fixed, see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=224437&msg=28&att=0)?

     Drew Daniels

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 09:30:15PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Package: kaffe
> Version: 2:1.1.4.PRE1.1.5-5
> Severity: normal
> Followup-For: Bug #256978
>
> Hi,
>
> as you said in your last message "/usr/lib/." is a valid library patch
> on its own.
>
> The problem arises with libtool checking the lib path against the
> system paths to see if rpath will be needed or not. Since "/usr/lib/."
> is not one of the standard search path libtool will use rpath for this
> library. That on its own is buggy but does not stop the binaries from
> working.
>
> But the problem becomes even more serious when dpkg-shlibdeps tries to
> calculate shared library dependancies. dpkg-shlibdeps compares the
> output from ldd (which includes the rpath /usr/lib/./) with dpkgs file
> database to find packages providing the library, which fails because
> dpkg has no . in there. Hence the missing Depends.
>
> On amd64 the lib path is even more strange: /usr/lib/../lib64. Since
> lib64 is a link to lib that ends up in the right place but again
> libtool and dpkgs file database won't work with that path.
>
> MfG
> Goswin
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-amd64
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE
>
> Versions of packages kaffe depends on:
> ii kaffe-pthreads 2:1.1.4.PRE1.1.5-5 A POSIX threads enabled version of
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>