Bug#533982: investigating ksimus

2009-09-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Christoph Egger  (28/08/2009):
> Hi!

Hello one month later! (hrm :/)

>   The admin/config.{guess,sub} not found can apparently be
> solved by copying the version in /usr/share/misc in the configure
> target. However thereafter these packages will all fail to build
> because not all symbols can be resolved and libtool doesn't like
> that

That's the usual way to fix this kind of issues, when there's an
admin/ directory around. Note that in the general case, “autoreconf
-vfi” does what you need almost all the time, but sometimes you need
to run each and every autotools command with appropriate cwd etc.

>   Without actually testing, this seems however to be correct
> behaviour as these libraries are intended as plugins and some of the
> missing symbols seem to directly come from the ksimus binary that is
> intended to load them.

Yeah. Note that when dpkg-shlibdeps complains about missing symbols, a
plugin architecture can be an explanation. We can discuss privately
another issue that can happen at build time because of missing symbols
if you like.

Mraw,
KiBi.


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Bug#533982: investigating ksimus

2009-08-28 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi!

The admin/config.{guess,sub} not found can apparently be solved by
copying the version in /usr/share/misc in the configure target. However
thereafter these packages will all fail to build because not all
symbols can be resolved and libtool doesn't like that

Without actually testing, this seems however to be correct
behaviour as these libraries are intended as plugins and some of the
missing symbols seem to directly come from the ksimus binary that is
intended to load them.

Regards

Christoph

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