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

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2011-05-03 Christian Grothoff <grothoff at net.in.tum.de> wrote:


> On Tuesday, May 03, 2011 04:42:40 PM Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> Christian Grothoff <grothoff at net.in.tum.de> writes:
[...] 
>>> /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.


It was dropped from the Debian package recently when the last package
in Debian that required it (by refereing to it in depency_libs of its 
own libtool la file) was fixed.

[...] 
>> 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.

> 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).

Is this a public code? I just do not see it here. - I have take a
arbitrary packages using libcurl4-gnutls-dev (vorbis-tools) and it
rebuilt without problem.

Do you really see reference to /usr/lib/libtasn1.la in Makefile.in?

cu andreas

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