Re: Bug#893591: e2fsprogs: circular build dependency block build on kfreebsd

["Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 08:50:43AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> 
> Package: e2fsprogs
> Version: 1.44.0~rc1-1
> Severity: important
> 
> The automatic builders in Debian are unable to build e2fsprogs on
> kfreebsd, because the build depend on libtirpc1 depending on libcomerr2
> (>= 1.01).  Is there a good way to break this loop?
> 
> The missing build blocks libvorbis from building on kfreebsd.

I don't understand the build ependency at all.  What is causing the
build dependency on libtirpc1?  It doesn't exist on any other
architecture.  I don't even know what that library *does*.

I had assumed this was some kind of kfreebsd bug; it's not anything I
know how to deal with....

Bewilderedly,

						- Ted