Hi, I've been trying to build php4 from source in the testing distro, and it's been failing for a while due to (it appears) conflicting build dependancies.
------------------------------- $ apt-get -b source php4 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 3434kB of source archives. Get:1 http://mirror.direct.ca testing/main php4 4:4.1.2-4 (dsc) [1547B] Get:2 http://mirror.direct.ca testing/main php4 4:4.1.2-4 (tar) [3347kB] Get:3 http://mirror.direct.ca testing/main php4 4:4.1.2-4 (diff) [85.6kB] Fetched 3B in 0s (18B/s) Skipping unpack of already unpacked source in php4-4.1.2 dpkg-buildpackage: source package is php4 dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 4:4.1.2-4 dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Adam Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture is i386 dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libgd-dev dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting. dpkg-buildpackage: (Use -d flag to override.) Build command 'cd php4-4.1.2 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed. E: Child process failed % apt-get install libgd-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libgd-noxpm-dev libpng12-0-dev The following packages will be REMOVED: libmagick5-dev libpng2-dev libwmf-dev The following NEW packages will be installed: libgd-dev libgd-noxpm-dev libpng12-0-dev 0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 3 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/378kB of archives. After unpacking 590kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y (Reading database ... 90317 files and directories currently installed.) Removing libmagick5-dev ... Removing libwmf-dev ... dpkg: libpng2-dev: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request: libquicktime4linux-dev depends on libpng-dev; however: Package libpng-dev is not installed. Package libpng2-dev which provides libpng-dev is to be removed. Removing libpng2-dev ... Selecting previously deselected package libpng12-0-dev. (Reading database ... 90230 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libpng12-0-dev (from .../libpng12-0-dev_1.2.5-10_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libgd-noxpm-dev. Unpacking libgd-noxpm-dev (from .../libgd-noxpm-dev_1.8.4-32_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libgd-dev. Unpacking libgd-dev (from .../libgd-dev_1.8.4-32_all.deb) ... Setting up libpng12-0-dev (1.2.5-10) ... Setting up libgd-noxpm-dev (1.8.4-32) ... Setting up libgd-dev (1.8.4-32) ... $ apt-get -b source php4 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 3434kB of source archives. Get:1 http://mirror.direct.ca testing/main php4 4:4.1.2-4 (dsc) [1547B] Get:2 http://mirror.direct.ca testing/main php4 4:4.1.2-4 (tar) [3347kB] Get:3 http://mirror.direct.ca testing/main php4 4:4.1.2-4 (diff) [85.6kB] Fetched 3B in 0s (18B/s) Skipping unpack of already unpacked source in php4-4.1.2 dpkg-buildpackage: source package is php4 dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 4:4.1.2-4 dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Adam Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture is i386 dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libmagick5-dev (>=5.2.0) libpng2-dev dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting. dpkg-buildpackage: (Use -d flag to override.) Build command 'cd php4-4.1.2 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed. E: Child process failed ------------------------------- It appears that libgd-dev and libmagick5-dev conflict with each other and so can't co-exist, but both are required to build php4. I started trying to trace where the exact dependancy problem might be, but I'm still not that familiar with the debian tools and doing it by hand was taking forever. Am I missing something here, or is there a real problem? Is this a bug that needs to be reported? If so, to which package maintainer? - Andrew -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Prior, Programmer (416) 691-1587
