Bug#916772: pkg-config: missing Depends: dpkg-dev
severity 916772 normal thanks ]] Helmut Grohne > # i686-linux-gnu-pkg-config --libs libssl This is a supported, but non-standard configuration, so I'm downgrading this from serious. > If adding dpkg-dev to Depends is not desired, the cross-wrapper could be > extended to give a useful error message in case $multiarch is empty: > > --- /usr/share/pkg-config-crosswrapper > +++ /usr/share/pkg-config-crosswrapper > @@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ >triplet="${basename%-pkg-config}" ># Normalized multiarch path if any, e.g. i386-linux-gnu for i386 >multiarch="`dpkg-architecture -t"${triplet}" -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH > 2>/dev/null`" > + if test "$?" != 0; then > +echo "Please apt install dpkg-dev to use this program." 1>&2 > +exit 1 > + fi ># Native multiarch path >native_multiarch="$(cat /usr/lib/pkg-config.multiarch)" This looks reasonable. > dpkg-dev should be added to Recommends in that case. Suggests seems more appropriate here. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
Bug#916772: pkg-config: missing Depends: dpkg-dev
Package: pkg-config Version: 0.29-4+b1 Severity: serious Justification: missing dependency # i686-linux-gnu-pkg-config --libs libssl Package libssl was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libssl.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'libssl' found # ls /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/libssl.pc /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/libssl.pc # apt -y install dpkg-dev ... # i686-linux-gnu-pkg-config --libs libssl -lssl # In this case, i686-linux-gnu-pkg-config is a symlink to /usr/share/pkg-config-crosswrapper and that script has the following line: multiarch="`dpkg-architecture -t"${triplet}" -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH 2>/dev/null`" It calls dpkg-architecture (which is in dpkg-dev) and igores all errors. In the absence of dpkg-architecture, the result will be empty and pkg-config doesn't work. If adding dpkg-dev to Depends is not desired, the cross-wrapper could be extended to give a useful error message in case $multiarch is empty: --- /usr/share/pkg-config-crosswrapper +++ /usr/share/pkg-config-crosswrapper @@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ triplet="${basename%-pkg-config}" # Normalized multiarch path if any, e.g. i386-linux-gnu for i386 multiarch="`dpkg-architecture -t"${triplet}" -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH 2>/dev/null`" + if test "$?" != 0; then +echo "Please apt install dpkg-dev to use this program." 1>&2 +exit 1 + fi # Native multiarch path native_multiarch="$(cat /usr/lib/pkg-config.multiarch)" dpkg-dev should be added to Recommends in that case. Helmut