Bug#833728: ldconfig causes FTBFS by creating spurious symlink to symlink

[Thibaut Paumard <thibaut@debian.org>]

Dear Aurelien,

Le 08/08/2016 18:21, Aurelien Jarno a écrit :
>> Since this issue eventually causes an FTBFS, I set the severity to important.
>> If you decide that this is not appropriate, any guidance to work around the
>> issue would be appreciated.
> 
> The problem there is actually due to multiarch, and the fact that mpich
> has been converted to multiarch while both openmpi and the alternative
> are in /usr/lib. They should all be on the same side, and the best way
> to fix this issue is to convert openmpi and the alternative to
> multiarch.

Thanks for the advice, forwarded to the mpich maintainers.

In the meantime I have found a workaround to avoid the FTBFS in yorick
(I just had to provide a debian/shlibs.local file).

Kind regards, Thibaut.