Re: cannot find library libgmsh.so.4.4 needed by ...
On 2019-07-15 14:44 +0200, Nico Schlömer wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> when upgrading gmsh to 4.4.0, I'm getting the build error
> ```
> [...]
> dpkg-shlibdeps: error: cannot find library libgmsh.so.4.4 needed by
> debian/gmsh/usr/bin/gmsh (ELF format: 'elf64-x86-64' abi:
> '0201003e00000000'; RPATH: '')
> dpkg-shlibdeps: error: cannot continue due to the error above
> Note: libraries are not searched in other binary packages that do not
> have any shlibs or symbols file.
> To help dpkg-shlibdeps find private libraries, you might need to use -l.
> ```
> see [1]. I'm not exactly sure why libgmsh.so.4.4 cannot be found; the
> library is linked with
> ```
> -Wl,-soname,libgmsh.so.4.4 -o libgmsh.so.4.4.0
> ```
> Any hints?
Probably that is a consequence of your commit a44d5ad253b8[1] which
removed the executable bit from debian/*.install. As a result, the
library gets installed to usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH} rather than
usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu, and dpkg-shlibdeps will not look in such a
strange place.
Cheers,
Sven
1. https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/gmsh/commit/a44d5ad253b874869f643a02c7d3ca4f4b6c05c0
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