[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1026734: mricron: FTBFS: /usr/bin/ld.bfd: cannot find -lX11: No such file or directory

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Santiago,

thanks again for watching me. ;-)

Am Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 05:10:50PM +0100 schrieb Santiago Vila:
> This is really weird.

+1
 
> This package also failed for me on bookworm, with the same error
> which happened to Lucas (the one in the Subject).
> 
> But today I tried again (in bookworm) and it worked, without any source change at all.
> (mricron version 1.2.20211006+dfsg-1).
> 
> I see that this change was made to try to fix the bug:
> 
> * Build-Depends: libx11-dev. Closes: #1026734
> 
> but libx11-dev was already being installed when the package was built:
> 
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=mricron&arch=amd64&ver=1.2.20211006%2Bdfsg-1&stamp=1637004231&raw=0
> 
> (probably because of a build-dependency which in turn had a dependency on libx11-dev).

Yes, this is what I assumed ... but I wanted to be super sure.
 
> So, even if adding libx11-dev was probably correct and formally necessary,
> as -lX11 was being used, I think it was not the real reason for the failure.
> 
> (Cc to Lucas, just in case he reported similar bugs in other packages).

I'd be also curious what might have caused that problem.
 
> Thanks.

Thanks to you
    Andreas.

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