Re: dpkg-shlibdeps: couldn't find library [...]

[Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>]

On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, David Paleino wrote:

> $ debuild
> ...
> dh_makeshlibs
> dh_shlibdeps
> dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: couldn't find library libvtkCommonTCL.so (note: only
> packages with 'shlibs' files are looked into). dh_shlibdeps: command returned

Remark: This is a wild guess without testing (I havn't set up a pbuilder
environment at home yet, because I have only 384MBit DSL).
I would try to use pbuilder to verify that all Build-Depends are mentioned
that are really needed.  The cause of this problem _might_ _be_ that you
by chance has a package installed on your building machine which enables
the building up to this point but fails when seeking libvtkCommonTCL.so
which is in package

    $ apt-file search libvtkCommonTCL
    vtk-tcl: usr/lib/libvtkCommonTCL.so
    ....

which is not in your build-depends (neither directly nor indirectly).

> libvtkCommonTCL.so is contained into vtk-tcl: I've added it to bioimagesuite
> Depends, also to libbioimagesuite2, but nothing changes. Supposing that was a
> RPATH-related issue [1], I've "chrpath -d"'ed all *.so files, but this didn't
> help either.

Mentioning the package in the Depends is not sufficient - it has to be in
Build-Depends.  I do not think that [1] is related because you are not
dealing with a private library but with a library in some other package.

> (we would have a new package which might be very useful to our users).

I'd really appreciate this.

Hope this helps and thanks for your work on this package

         Andreas.

> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/09/msg00889.html

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