Bug#625451: libtasn1-3-dev: /usr/lib/libtasn1.la is not included

[Christian Grothoff]

Dear Simon,

The use of it confused me, since it seems to have been required by 
libtool/automake while compiling a project (linking phase) that does NOT 
reference gnutls/libtasn anywhere -- it suddenly got into Makefile.in/Makefile 
(but was never in Makefile.am/configure.ac).  Looking a bit more into this, 
the problem seems to always arise when I link against libcurl.  I have 
libcurl3, libcurl3-gnutls and libcurl4-gnutls-dev installed (7.21.6-1).

I hope this helps! 

Best,

Christian


On Tuesday, May 03, 2011 04:42:40 PM Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Christian Grothoff <grothoff at net.in.tum.de> writes:
> > Package: libtasn1-3-dev
> > Version: 2.9-3
> > Severity: grave
> > Tags: sid
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> > 
> > I first got this error compiling some code:
> > 
> > /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libtasn1.la: No such file or directory
> > libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libtasn1.la' is not a valid libtool archive
> > 
> > The file does not exist on my system.  I first tried to install
> > (and re-install) libtasn1-3-dev, but that did not change anything.
> > 
> > Then I looked at
> > http://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/libtasn1-3-dev/filelist
> > and it says the file should be included here.
> > 
> > However, listing the
> > contents of the respecitve Debian archive, it is in fact
> > not included.
> 
> Hi Christan.
> 
> The Debian Squeeze release has the file:
> 
> http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/amd64/libtasn1-3-dev/filelist
> 
> However it was removed in Debian sid recently:
> 
> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/libt/libtasn1-3/libtasn1-3_
> 2.9-3/changelog
> 
> Can you track down what *.la file you had that was referring
> /usr/lib/libtasn1.la?  If it is a local code, I am sorry but you have to
> recompile that code after the *.la file was removed.  If it is something
> in Debian, we should have cought when making the switch but knowing what
> package it is should be enough to fix it.
> 
> /Simon