Unable to build php4: conflicting dependancies
Hi,
I've been trying to build php4 from source in the testing distro, and
it's been failing for a while due to (it appears) conflicting build
dependancies.
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$ apt-get -b source php4
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Need to get 3434kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://mirror.direct.ca testing/main php4 4:4.1.2-4 (dsc) [1547B]
Get:2 http://mirror.direct.ca testing/main php4 4:4.1.2-4 (tar) [3347kB]
Get:3 http://mirror.direct.ca testing/main php4 4:4.1.2-4 (diff) [85.6kB]
Fetched 3B in 0s (18B/s)
Skipping unpack of already unpacked source in php4-4.1.2
dpkg-buildpackage: source package is php4
dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 4:4.1.2-4
dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Adam Conrad <adconrad@0c3.net>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture is i386
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libgd-dev
dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting.
dpkg-buildpackage: (Use -d flag to override.)
Build command 'cd php4-4.1.2 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed.
E: Child process failed
% apt-get install libgd-dev
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libgd-noxpm-dev libpng12-0-dev
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libmagick5-dev libpng2-dev libwmf-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libgd-dev libgd-noxpm-dev libpng12-0-dev
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 3 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/378kB of archives. After unpacking 590kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 90317 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libmagick5-dev ...
Removing libwmf-dev ...
dpkg: libpng2-dev: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request:
libquicktime4linux-dev depends on libpng-dev; however:
Package libpng-dev is not installed.
Package libpng2-dev which provides libpng-dev is to be removed.
Removing libpng2-dev ...
Selecting previously deselected package libpng12-0-dev.
(Reading database ... 90230 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libpng12-0-dev (from .../libpng12-0-dev_1.2.5-10_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libgd-noxpm-dev.
Unpacking libgd-noxpm-dev (from .../libgd-noxpm-dev_1.8.4-32_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libgd-dev.
Unpacking libgd-dev (from .../libgd-dev_1.8.4-32_all.deb) ...
Setting up libpng12-0-dev (1.2.5-10) ...
Setting up libgd-noxpm-dev (1.8.4-32) ...
Setting up libgd-dev (1.8.4-32) ...
$ apt-get -b source php4
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Need to get 3434kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://mirror.direct.ca testing/main php4 4:4.1.2-4 (dsc) [1547B]
Get:2 http://mirror.direct.ca testing/main php4 4:4.1.2-4 (tar) [3347kB]
Get:3 http://mirror.direct.ca testing/main php4 4:4.1.2-4 (diff) [85.6kB]
Fetched 3B in 0s (18B/s)
Skipping unpack of already unpacked source in php4-4.1.2
dpkg-buildpackage: source package is php4
dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 4:4.1.2-4
dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Adam Conrad <adconrad@0c3.net>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture is i386
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libmagick5-dev (>=5.2.0) libpng2-dev
dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting.
dpkg-buildpackage: (Use -d flag to override.)
Build command 'cd php4-4.1.2 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed.
E: Child process failed
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It appears that libgd-dev and libmagick5-dev conflict with each other and
so can't co-exist, but both are required to build php4. I started trying to
trace where the exact dependancy problem might be, but I'm still not that
familiar with the debian tools and doing it by hand was taking forever.
Am I missing something here, or is there a real problem? Is this a bug
that needs to be reported? If so, to which package maintainer?
- Andrew
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Andrew Prior, Programmer (416) 691-1587
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