Comment 0 for bug 22353

Package: libpng
Version: 1.2.8rel-3
Severity: serious
Tags: patch

Hi,

libpng fails to build when awk is provided by gawk, but builds well when
awk is provided by mawk. See below:

...

awk -F '[\t [\]();]' -v PNGMAJ=0 'BEGIN{printf("PNG12_%s {global:\n",PNGMAJ)}\
{ for (i=1;i+2<=NF;++i)\
 if ($(i)=="PNG_FUNCTION_EXPORT" && $(i+2)=="END")\
  print $(i+1) ";";\
for (i=1;i+1<=NF;++i)\
 if ($(i)=="PNG_DATA_EXPORT")\
  print $(i+1) ";";}\
END{print "local: *; };"}' >libpng.syms.new
awk: warning: escape sequence `\]' treated as plain `]'
rm -f libpng.syms
mv libpng.syms.new libpng.syms
gcc -shared -lz -lm -Wl,-soname,libpng12.so.0 \
-Wl,-version-script,libpng.syms \
-o libpng12.so.0.1.2.8 \
png.pic.o pngset.pic.o pngget.pic.o pngrutil.pic.o pngtrans.pic.o pngwutil.pic.o pngread.pic.o pngrio.pic.o pngwio.pic.o pngwrite.pic.o pngrtran.pic.o pngwtran.pic.o pngmem.pic.o pngerror.pic.o pngpread.pic.o
/usr/bin/ld:libpng.syms:2: syntax error in VERSION script
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [libpng12.so.0.1.2.8] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/libpng-1.2.8rel'
make: *** [debian/stamp-makefile-build] Error 2

..

awk is always installed on a Debian system (via base-files), but you
can't be sure which one of mawk and gawk will be installed. As libpng
use mawk functionalities, you need to build-depends on it, and call mawk
instead of awk.

Please find attached a patch to do that.

I have set the severity of the bug to serious, but as mawk seems to be
the package installed by default on a system, you may want to decrease
the severity of the bug.

Bye,
Aurelien

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