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Package: libhdf5-dev
Version: 1.10.8+repack1-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Trying to statically link an executable (like h5_write.c¹) against HDF5 using
the pkg-config profile fails:
$ gcc -static h5_write.c $(pkg-config --cflags hdf5) $(pkg-config --static
--libs hdf5)
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial/libhdf5.a(H5PLint.o): in
function `H5PL__open':
(.text+0x46b): warning: Using 'dlopen' in statically linked applications
requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial/libhdf5.a(H5Fint.o): in
function `H5F_track_metadata_read_retries':
(.text+0x3c09): undefined reference to `log10'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial/libhdf5.a(H5Fint.o): in
function `H5F_set_retries':
(.text+0x3d42): undefined reference to `log10'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial/libhdf5.a(H5Tconv.o): in
function `H5T__conv_f_i':
(.text+0x631a4): undefined reference to `pow'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial/libhdf5.a(H5Tconv.o): in
function `H5T__conv_i_f':
(.text+0x64a73): undefined reference to `pow'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text+0x64d82): undefined reference to `pow'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial/libhdf5.a(H5Z.o): in
function `H5Z__init_package':
(.text+0x60b): undefined reference to `SZ_encoder_enabled'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial/libhdf5.a(H5Zdeflate.o): in
function `H5Z__filter_deflate':
(.text+0x114): undefined reference to `compress2'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text+0x212): undefined reference to `inflateInit_'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text+0x23d): undefined reference to `inflate'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text+0x25e): undefined reference to `inflateEnd'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text+0x2b4): undefined reference to `inflateEnd'
/usr/bin/ld: (.text+0x33e): undefined reference to `inflateEnd'
[…]
Obviously the libraries on which HDF5 depends should be added to the
Libs.private and Requires.private fields.²
Thanks for your work,
¹ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/develop/examples/h5_write.c
² See for example https://people.freedesktop.org/~dbn/pkg-config-guide.html
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⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Sébastien Villemot
⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer
⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://sebastien.villemot.name
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Version: 2.1.0+repack-1
Hi,
On Wed, 07 May 2025 13:54:29 +0200 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?= Villemot
<[email protected]> wrote:
Le lundi 30 décembre 2024 à 20:11 +0100, [email protected] a écrit :
> Le 2023-09-19 15:19, Sébastien Villemot a écrit :
> > Package: libhdf5-dev
> > Version: 1.10.8+repack1-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> > Trying to statically link an executable (like h5_write.c¹) against HDF5
> > using
> > the pkg-config profile fails:
[…]
> > Obviously the libraries on which HDF5 depends should be added to the
> > Libs.private and Requires.private fields.²
>
> Upstream provides pkg-config files for cmake builds only. The current
> pkg-config for HDF5 in Debian were added by me, and are just minimalist
> ones. They are not expected to work for every use case.
>
> I've opened a feature request at the upstream github project:
> https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/5194
>
> Meanwhile, patches are welcome.
Thanks. So if I understand correctly upstream’s reply, the proper fix
for this issue is to switch to a cmake build for the Debian package
(and this will become mandatory for HDF5 2.0).
This should be fixed starting with HDF5 2.1.0.
Best,
_g.
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