Bug#233669: apt: Apt requires /usr/bin/msgcomm to build, not documented, not tested.
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.21
Severity: minor
In the course of trying to build apt on a RedHat
system, I noticed that the build process required
msgcomm (which is /usr/bin/msgcomm on my Debian system).
This is not documented in the COMPILING file,
and the ./configure script may want to check for
its presence.
Likewise, the build process complains that db2 is
not available (but it proceeds after noting that
something, probably ftp downloads, won't work).
Likewise, the dependence on db2 should be noted
in the COMPILING file.
There are other build problems on RedHat, but
I haven't yet narrowed them down enough to figure
out if you might be interested in them or not.
(It doesn't generate po/apt/c.pot...).
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
# deb http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian testing main contrib non-free
# deb-src http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
# deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
# deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
# deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
# deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux gpk 2.4.23 #2 Sun Dec 7 11:46:58 GMT 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.3-0pre3 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.3-0pre3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
-- no debconf information
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