On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 07:45:53PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > A number of applications currently fail to build with something like: > | sparc-linux-gnu-gcc -g -O2 -o .libs/ots ots.o ../src/.libs/libots-1.so /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so /usr/lib/libxml2.so -ldl -lz -lm /usr/lib/libpopt.so > | /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz > In bug #378494, filed on one of these packages (ices2), Julien Cristau > first claims "this -lz comes from libxml2's .la file, which libtool > uses to link ices2. This could be fixed by libxml2-dev depending on > zlib1g-dev again, or not installing libxml2.la (which would probably > be better in the long term, but risks breaking existing packages)." > He later adds, "Actually, relibtoolizing ices2 (with the Debian libtool) > seems to be enough to fix this." > Should I file individual bugs on these packages or one grave bug on > libxml2. One grave bug on libxml2, please. The common case of linking against libxml2 using libtool is now broken, for no discernable reason. This is irresponsible library maintenance; it shouldn't be left to the maintainers of all the *other* packages to make this work again, particularly when we have freeze deadlines we want to be hitting... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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