Re: Issue to build libmlpcap-ocaml-dev examples on Debian Etch

[Sylvain Le Gall <gildor@debian.org>]

Hello,

On 16-04-2008, David MENTRE <dmentre@linux-france.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 2008/4/16 David MENTRE <dmentre@linux-france.org>:
>>  I'm trying to build /usr/share/doc/libmlpcap-ocaml-dev/examples/ on
>>  Debian Etch 4.0. It does not compile when doing a "make":
>>
>>  $ make
>>  [...]
>>  ocamlfind ocamlc -package pcap -linkpkg -o misc misc.cmo
>>  /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcallback
>>  collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>  Error while building custom runtime system
>>  make: *** [misc] Error 2
>>
>>  On my system, the only libcallback I have is "/usr/lib/libcallback.so.0.0.0".
> [...]
>>  Any idea of what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Ok, found it! I needed to install "libffcall1-dev" package that
> contains the missing "/usr/lib/libcallback.a" library (many thanks to
> packages.debian.org ;-).
>
> Maybe "libmlpcap-ocaml-dev" should depend on "libffcall1-dev"? Is this
> a bug or expected behaviour?
>

I answer you 20 seconds ago... (we solve the problem at the same time).

This is a bug.

Could you submit a bug report?

Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall