Your message dated Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:36:44 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#668045: dpkg-dev: dpkg-shlibdeps breaks builds of mplayer2 (at least) in a powerpc system has caused the Debian Bug report #668045, regarding dpkg-dev: dpkg-shlibdeps breaks builds of mplayer2 (at least) in a powerpc system to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.16.2 Severity: important Hi. First, a meta-comment: Please, if this is not the proper package the bug should be assigned, then please reassign it. I am also unsure of the severity of the bug, as it breaks rebuilds of other packages. OK, so, I am trying to chase a problem with illegal instructions on this notebook and I tried recompiling mplayer2 from sid. Removing one option to the ./configure script builds a working version (I can run the binary well), but, unfortunately, no package can be built, as dpkg-shlibdeps (as called by debhelper) fails with the following message: ,---- | (...) | dpkg-shlibdeps -Tdebian/mplayer2.subsvars debian/mplayer2/usr/bin/mplayer | dpkg-shlibdeps: error: no dependency information found for /lib/libncurses.so.5 (used by debian/mplayer2/usr/bin/mplayer). `---- I am not really sure if this is a problem with dpkg-dev or with libncurses. On this machine, /usr/libncurses.so.5 is present, but libtinfo is under /lib/powerpc-linux-gnu instead. I don't know if this is only a red herring or if it is a real cause. If any further information is needed, then please let me know. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 3.3.0-trunk-powerpc Locale: LANG=en_US.utf-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on: ii base-files 6.7 ii binutils 2.22-6 ii bzip2 1.0.6-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.2 ii libfile-fcntllock-perl 0.14-1+b1 ii make 3.81-8.1 ii patch 2.6.1-3 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20110809-3 Versions of packages dpkg-dev recommends: ii build-essential 11.5 ii fakeroot 1.18.2-1 ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.6.3-4 ii gcc-4.6 [c-compiler] 4.6.3-2 ii gnupg 1.4.12-4 ii gpgv 1.4.12-4 ii libalgorithm-merge-perl 0.08-2 Versions of packages dpkg-dev suggests: pn debian-keyring <none> -- no debconf information -- Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA http://rb.doesntexist.org : Packages for LaTeX : algorithms.berlios.de DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br
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--- Begin Message ---On 2012-04-08 19:50 +0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > None of the directories there are symlinks, as you can see. Regarding > libncurses* and libtinfo*, there's something fishy here: > > ,----[ ls -l /lib/libncurses* /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/libncurses* > /lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/libncurses* > /lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5* > /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/libtinfo.* ] > | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Mar 9 00:54 /lib/libncurses.so.5 -> > libncurses.so.5.6 > | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 248496 Sep 1 2008 /lib/libncurses.so.5.6 > | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Mar 9 01:07 /lib/libncursesw.so.5 -> > libncursesw.so.5.6 > | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 301996 Sep 1 2008 /lib/libncursesw.so.5.6 That's the problem, indeed. Note that it is only made apparent by the move of the system-provided files to the multiarch paths. > In particular, note that I have /lib/libncurses.so.5.6 and > /lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5.9. I wonder where that .5.6 thing > came from that it wasn't removed, because: > > ,----[ dpkg -S /lib/libncurses.so.5.6 ] > | dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /lib/libncurses.so.5.6. > `---- > > Seeing as I never install anything outside Debian, I don't know how it is > there (perhaps some fsck or whatever?). Well, the files had been shipped in Debian packages at some time, and if your dpkg database had become corrupt (such as /var/lib/dpkg/info/libncurses5.list being empty), they would not have been removed by upgrades to later versions. Do you have spurious /lib/libtic* files as well? Anyway, after 3.5 years it's probably too late to investigate, so I'm closing the bug as you suggested in your other mail. Cheers, Sven
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