Package: libradius1-dev
Version: 0.3.2-9
Severity: important
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note i'm rating this important for now, though it's been suggested to
raise the severity higher. i'll defer to debian-release for a
definitive answer (i'll ping them after the bug is recorded).
basically, the problem is that libradius1-dev ships with a libtool
helper file /usr/lib/libradiusclient.la, which was not built correctly
and thus passes the wrong settings to any libtool-aware software that
is compiled in the future. for example, taking the upstream release
of nagios-plugins (1.4.3) and attempting to compile it gets you:
<snip>
/bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -Wall -g -O2 -L. -o check_radius
check_radius.o netutils.o utils.o ../lib/libnagiosplug.a ../lib/libcoreutils.a
-lnsl -lresolv -lradiusclient -lssl -lcrypto
gcc -Wall -g -O2 -o check_radius check_radius.o netutils.o utils.o
-L/home/sean/nagiosplug/plugins ../lib/libnagiosplug.a ../lib/libcoreutils.a
-lresolv /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.2/../../..//.libs/libradiusclient.so
-lcrypt -lnsl -lssl -lcrypto -Wl,--rpath
-Wl,/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.2/../../..//.libs
gcc: /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.2/../../..//.libs/libradiusclient.so: No
such file or directory
make[1]: *** [check_radius] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sean/nagiosplug/plugins'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
now i'm not a libtool expert, but it seems to me that the problem is in
the mentioned .la file, specifically:
# Is this an already installed library?
installed=no
changing the setting to yes fixes all problems that i've noticed.
furthermore, this seems to be the only package i have on my system
that defines this setting to no:
numanuma[~]16:01:17$ grep installed= /usr/lib/*.la | cut -d: -f2 | sort | uniq
-c
1 installed=no
81 installed=yes
which reinforces my suspicion that this is broken.
it seems that the most recent versions of libtool (>> sarge) are able
to work around this problem automagically, but that's of little help
to sarge users or users of external software that ship with an older
version of libtool.
sean
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages libradius1-dev depends on:
ii libc6-dev 2.3.6-9 GNU C Library: Development Librari
ii libradius1 0.3.2-9 /bin/login replacement with RADIUS
libradius1-dev recommends no packages.
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