Bug#652061: elmerfem: FTBFS missing build-dependencvy?

[Adam C Powell IV]

clone 652061 -1
reassign -1 libarpack2-dev
retitle -1 Removed symbols needed by other packages
found -1 3.0.1-1
block 652061 by -1
thanks

On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 14:31 -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Hi Sylvestre,
> 
> On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 18:50 +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> > Le mercredi 14 décembre 2011 à 11:58 -0500, Adam C Powell IV a écrit :
> > > Hi Christoph,
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 16:01 +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:
> > > > Package: src:elmerfem
> > > > Version: 6.1.0.svn.5396.dfsg-3
> > > > Severity: serious
> > > > Tags: sid wheezy
> > > > Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
> > > > 
> > > > Hi!
> > > > 
> > > > Your package failed to build on the buildds:
> > > > 
> > > > checking for dseupd_ in -larpack... yes
> > > > configure: WARNING: No parallel arpack found.
> > > > checking for pdneupd_ in -lparpack... no
> > > > checking for HYPRE_IJMatrixCreate in -lHYPRE_IJ_mv... yes
> > > > checking for dmumps_ in -ldmumps_scotch... yes
> > > > checking for umfpack_di_defaults in -lumfpack... yes
> > > > checking for mtc_init in -lmatc... yes
> > > > configure: error: The MPI version needs parpack. Disabling MPI.
> > > > checking for main in -lm... yes
> > > > make: *** [stamp-build] Error 1
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the report.  Hmm, libparpack.so is still there, but doesn't
> > > have this symbol.  Requires further investigation.  I should be able to
> > > get to it in the next day or two.
> > hmhm, this is likely to be my fault.
> > We (Debian, Scilab & Octave) released a new version of arpack (since
> > upstream is dead) [1]. We applied some patches from gentoo to switch to
> > autotools. 
> > It might be the cause of your issue.
> > Do you know which symbol is missing ?
> 
> From the build log, configure is looking for dseupd_ but I don't know
> all of the symbols which Elmer uses.

Sounds like this is an arpack bug.  Please do "nm libparpack.so" on the
un-stripped libraries, old and new, to see what has been dropped and
figure out why.

I'll do so if I can get some time, but that might be mid-next week.

-Adam
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