Bug#599096: slicer: FTBFS: make[3]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib/libpq.so', needed by `bin/libvtkTeem.so.3.6.0'. Stop.

[Dominique Belhachemi]

On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 13:55 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:31:43AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:12:43 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I wonder why there is no answer on this a bit aged serios bug.  For me
> > > it smells like a missing Build-Depends from libpq-dev.  When trying to
> > > build the package on amd64 I noticed that libpq-dev is installed via
> > > implicite dependencies of other Build-Depends.  Is there any complete
> > > build log for powerpc arch to verify if this package is included?
> > > 
> > https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=slicer&ver=3.6.0~svn13936-1&arch=powerpc&stamp=1286207213&file=log
> 
> I think my theory that libpq-dev is not installed when builded on
> powerpc is true.  Could you try building the version in experimental
> (3.6.2~svn15375-1) because this package mentiones libpq-dev explicitely
> in its Build-Depends.  If this works we might be able to close the
> bug quite simply.
> 
Hi Andreas,

Thanks for looking into this issue.

My ultimate goal is to remove the libpq-dev dependency completely. It is
not needed by slicer, but it gets included because of cmake's transitive
linking. I already removed a lot of those unnecessary dependencies, but
it takes some time because I have to recompile other packages as well.

I should mention that this bug is not that 'serious', because it only
effects a snapshot in experimental. I am working on it...

Thanks
Dominique