Bug#712047: libc6-dev: cannot build C programs

[Michal Suchanek <michal.suchanek@ruk.cuni.cz>]

Package: libc6-dev
Version: 2.13-38
Severity: important

Hello,

I tried building a C program with libc-dev installed.

The program would not build because headers were missing:

libc6-dev-i386: /usr/include/bits
libc6-dev:amd64: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/predefs.h
linux-libc-dev:amd64: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/asm/errno.h
gcc-multilib: /usr/include/asm


For the asm/errno.h (referenced from common header) to be present gcc-multilib must be installed.

Similarily for bits/predefs.h to be present libc6-dev-i386 must be installed.

The libc6-dev package is incomplete and cannot stand on its own.

Dependency on gcc-multilib is bogus. It requires specific version of gcc installed.

Also, libc6-dev does not depend on these packages.

Please make a libc package against which C programs do compile.

Thanks

Michal



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.8-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libc6-dev depends on:
ii  libc-dev-bin    2.13-38
ii  libc6           2.13-38
ii  linux-libc-dev  3.2.41-2

Versions of packages libc6-dev recommends:
ii  gcc [c-compiler]      4:4.7.2-1
ii  gcc-4.4 [c-compiler]  4.4.7-2
ii  gcc-4.7 [c-compiler]  4.7.2-5

Versions of packages libc6-dev suggests:
pn  glibc-doc     <none>
pn  manpages-dev  <none>

-- no debconf information


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (910, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (610, 'oldstable'), (410, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental'), (150, 'precise-updates'), (150, 'precise-security'), (150, 'precise')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.8-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libc6-dev depends on:
ii  libc-dev-bin    2.17-3
ii  libc6           2.17-3
ii  linux-libc-dev  3.8.13-1

Versions of packages libc6-dev recommends:
ii  bcc [c-compiler]      0.16.17-3.1
ii  gcc [c-compiler]      4:4.7.2-1
ii  gcc-4.6 [c-compiler]  4.6.3-15
ii  gcc-4.7 [c-compiler]  4.7.2-5

Versions of packages libc6-dev suggests:
pn  glibc-doc     <none>
ii  manpages-dev  3.44-1

-- no debconf information