Re: cannot find library libgmsh.so.4.4 needed by ...
> As a result, the library gets installed to usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH} rather than usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
debian/rules has
```
DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)
```
so I thought (on respective machines), {DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH} equals
x86_64-linux-gnu. Not the case?
On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 3:22 PM Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On 2019-07-15 14:44 +0200, Nico Schlömer wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > when upgrading gmsh to 4.4.0, I'm getting the build error
> > ```
> > [...]
> > dpkg-shlibdeps: error: cannot find library libgmsh.so.4.4 needed by
> > debian/gmsh/usr/bin/gmsh (ELF format: 'elf64-x86-64' abi:
> > '0201003e00000000'; RPATH: '')
> > dpkg-shlibdeps: error: cannot continue due to the error above
> > Note: libraries are not searched in other binary packages that do not
> > have any shlibs or symbols file.
> > To help dpkg-shlibdeps find private libraries, you might need to use -l.
> > ```
> > see [1]. I'm not exactly sure why libgmsh.so.4.4 cannot be found; the
> > library is linked with
> > ```
> > -Wl,-soname,libgmsh.so.4.4 -o libgmsh.so.4.4.0
> > ```
> > Any hints?
>
> Probably that is a consequence of your commit a44d5ad253b8[1] which
> removed the executable bit from debian/*.install. As a result, the
> library gets installed to usr/lib/${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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