Hello In fact the real problem is not the -dev dependencies. If you look at the .h files of nexus you can see that no #include of these third party library are included so in fact these library are just private libraries.
picca@mordor:/usr/include/nexus$ rgrep include * napi.h://#include <cstdint> // needs c++11 support napi.h:#include <stdint.h> napi.h:#include <stdint.h> napiu.h:#include "napi.h" NeXusException.hpp:#include <string> NeXusException.hpp:#include <stdexcept> NeXusFile.hpp:#include <map> NeXusFile.hpp:#include <string> NeXusFile.hpp:#include <utility> NeXusFile.hpp:#include <vector> NeXusFile.hpp:#include "napi.h" NeXusFile.hpp:#include "NeXusStream.hpp" NeXusStream.hpp:#include <list> NeXusStream.hpp:#include <vector> NeXusStream.hpp:#include "NeXusFile.hpp" The real problem is the nexus.pc a common mistake is to populate the .pc files with the flags used to build the library. but in fact the purpose of this .pc file is to provide the CFLAGS and LIBS used to compile a software with your library. Libs: -L${libdir} -lNexus CFlags: -I${includedir}/nexus upstream should think about this a create the right nexus.pc.in it is also true for the nexus-cpp.pc instead of this you should look at the Private flags in the documentation pf pkg-config. # prefix=/usr exec_prefix=${prefix} libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib includedir=${prefix}/include Name:NeXus Library Description:Libraries and utilities for using NeXus format data files Version:4.3.2-20131113svn-0 Requires: Conflicts: Libs: -L${libdir} -lNeXus -L/usr/lib/ -lmfhdf -ldf -L/usr/lib -lhdf5 -lz -L/usr/lib -lmxml -lhdf5 -lmfhdf -ldf -ljpeg -lz -lpthread -ldl -lm Cflags: -I${includedir}/nexus -I${includedir} -I/usr/include/hdf -DHDF4 -I/usr/include -DHDF5 -DH5_NO_DEPRECATED_SYMBOLS -DH5Acreate_vers=2 -DH5Aiterate_vers=2 -DH5Dcreate_vers=2 -DH5Dopen_vers=2 -DH5Eclear_vers=2 -DH5Eprint_vers=2 -DH5Epush_vers=2 -DH5Eset_auto_vers=2 -DH5Eget_auto_vers=2 -DH5Ewalk_vers=2 -DH5Gcreate_vers=2 -DH5Gopen_vers=2 -DH5Pget_filter_vers=2 -DH5Pget_filter_by_id_vers=2 -DH5Pinsert_vers=2 -DH5Pregister_vers=2 -DH5Rget_obj_type_vers=2 -DH5Tarray_create_vers=2 -DH5Tcommit_vers=2 -DH5Tget_array_dims_vers=2 -DH5Topen_vers=2 -I/usr/include -DNXXML Cheers Frederic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org