[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#379807: Causes other packages to FTBFS

[Martin Michlmayr]

Package: libxml2
Severity: grave

A number of packages fail with a "cannot find -lz" error due to
libxml2.


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From: Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org>
Subject: Re: Build failure: cannot find -lz
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:16:30 -0700
To: Martin Michlmayr <tbm at cyrius.com>
Cc: debian-devel at lists.debian.org,
	debian-xml-sgml-pkgs at lists.alioth.debian.org,
	Julien Cristau <julien.cristau at ens-lyon.org>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403

On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 07:45:53PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> A number of applications currently fail to build with something like:

> | sparc-linux-gnu-gcc -g -O2 -o .libs/ots ots.o ../src/.libs/libots-1.so /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so /usr/lib/libxml2.so -ldl -lz -lm /usr/lib/libpopt.so
> | /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz

> In bug #378494, filed on one of these packages (ices2), Julien Cristau
> first claims "this -lz comes from libxml2's .la file, which libtool
> uses to link ices2.  This could be fixed by libxml2-dev depending on
> zlib1g-dev again, or not installing libxml2.la (which would probably
> be better in the long term, but risks breaking existing packages)."
> He later adds, "Actually, relibtoolizing ices2 (with the Debian libtool)
> seems to be enough to fix this."

> Should I file individual bugs on these packages or one grave bug on
> libxml2.

One grave bug on libxml2, please.  The common case of linking against
libxml2 using libtool is now broken, for no discernable reason.  This is
irresponsible library maintenance; it shouldn't be left to the maintainers
of all the *other* packages to make this work again, particularly when we
have freeze deadlines we want to be hitting...

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