Re: fakeroot problem - fixed?

[csj <csj@mindgate.net>]

On Saturday 02 June 2001 21:36, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 05:55:35AM +0800, csj wrote:
> > With fakeroot 0.4.4-9.2,  a build exits with
> >
> > ----[stderr abridged and graciously spaced for clarity]----
> >
> > /usr/bin/perl: error while loading shared libraries:
> > libfakeroot.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> > directory
> >
> > dh_shlibdeps: command returned error code
> >
> > make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
> >
> > ----[stderr abridged and graciously spaced for clarity]----
> >
> > Build is successful however when I downgrade to fakeroot
> > 0.4.4-9.1. What's surprising is that this problem doesn't occur
> > with all source packages. I have confirmed this for nautilus,
> > kdebase (2.1.1.0), and xfree86. Smaller packages like aumix tend
> > to compile successfully.
>
> Apparently, this happens when building packages where
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set somewhere during the build, see bug #98766.
> I guess the solution is to either downgrade fakeroot or go into the
> Makefile (or Makefile.in) of effected packages and edit them so
> that the old LD_LIBRARY_PATH included when they change to the new
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I don't know if you would file this as a bug
> against the effected package; I guess it depends on if fakeroot is
> going to be fixed (maybe not since according to bug #98766 the
> change is necessary for sparc64)

I fixed (sort of) the problem by creating the following symlink:
alpha:/usr/lib# ln -s libfakeroot/libfakeroot.so.0 .