[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#628153: dcmtk: Please make individual libraries self-contained (no unresolved symbols)

[Michael Hanke]

Package: dcmtk
Version: 3.6.0-5
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

I'm updating a package to use libdcmtk2-dev and it is a bit difficult,
because several DCMTK libs have unresolved symbols -- they are not fully
linked against their dependencies. This is what happens:

  michael at meiner /tmp % cat dcmtktest.cpp
  int main () {
    return 0;
  }

  michael at meiner /tmp % g++ -ldcmimgle  dcmtktest.cpp
  /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../../lib/libdcmimgle.so: undefined reference to `operator!=(OFString const&, char const*)'
  /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../../lib/libdcmimgle.so: undefined reference to `OFString::~OFString()'
  /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../../lib/libdcmimgle.so: undefined reference to `DcmItem::putAndInsertUint16(DcmTag const&, unsig
  <snip long list of unresolved symbols>

I need to complete the list manually:

  michael at meiner /tmp % g++ -ldcmimgle -ldcmdata -lofstd -loflog -lpthread -lz dcmtktest.cpp

This makes it quite difficult to deal with upstream configure snippets
that do something like this:

  AC_CHECK_LIB(dcmdata,main,LIBS="-ldcmdata $LIBS"; DATALIBS="-ldcmdata $DATALIBS",lib_dcmtk=no)

Which fails, because the test program cannot be linked successfully.

It would be great of all dcmtk libs could be fully linked against all
their actual dependencies.


Thanks.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dcmtk depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.112+nmu2       add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-11        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdcmtk2               3.6.0-5          The OFFIS DICOM toolkit runtime li
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.6.0-2        GCC support library
ii  libjpeg62               6b1-1            The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.44-2         PNG library - runtime
ii  libssl1.0.0             1.0.0d-2         SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6              4.6.0-2          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtiff4                3.9.4-9          Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libwrap0                7.6.q-19         Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libxml2                 2.7.8.dfsg-2     GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

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dcmtk suggests no packages.

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