Public bug reported: Inspecting the liblld-8 package contents, version 1:8-3, revealed something of a surprise. Below is a recursive list of what it places in /usr/lib/llvm-8
./usr/lib/llvm-8: total 4.0K drwxr-xr-x 2 rscholar rscholar 4.0K May 19 15:33 lib/ ./usr/lib/llvm-8/lib: total 11M -rw-r--r-- 1 rscholar rscholar 1.8M Apr 2 02:57 liblldCOFF.a -rw-r--r-- 1 rscholar rscholar 457K Apr 2 02:57 liblldCommon.a -rw-r--r-- 1 rscholar rscholar 177K Apr 2 02:57 liblldCore.a -rw-r--r-- 1 rscholar rscholar 119K Apr 2 02:57 liblldDriver.a -rw-r--r-- 1 rscholar rscholar 5.9M Apr 2 02:57 liblldELF.a -rw-r--r-- 1 rscholar rscholar 1.4M Apr 2 02:57 liblldMachO.a -rw-r--r-- 1 rscholar rscholar 43K Apr 2 02:57 liblldMinGW.a -rw-r--r-- 1 rscholar rscholar 40K Apr 2 02:57 liblldReaderWriter.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 rscholar rscholar 36 Apr 2 02:57 liblld.so.1 -> ../../x86_64-linux-gnu/liblld-8.so.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 rscholar rscholar 716K Apr 2 02:57 liblldWasm.a -rw-r--r-- 1 rscholar rscholar 188K Apr 2 02:57 liblldYAML.a ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu: total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 rscholar rscholar 13 Apr 2 02:57 liblld-8.so -> liblld-8.so.1 As you can see, in two places it is symlinking to a file it expects to exist at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblld-8.so.1 which, in fact, is not included in the package. The same is true of the packages from the LLVM official apt repository in distributions xenial through disco. I'm running Kubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" on a Lenovo ThinkPad T420s (Core i7 2nd. Gen). ** Affects: llvm-toolchain-8 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: packaging ** Summary changed: - Package version 1:8-3 contains no actual library, just broken symlinks + Package version 1:8-3 contains no actual lld library, just broken symlinks -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to llvm-toolchain-8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1829677 Title: Package version 1:8-3 contains no actual lld library, just broken symlinks To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/llvm-toolchain-8/+bug/1829677/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp