Bug#492815: bogus dependencies when building pelr modules, missing dependency in libperl-dev

[Niko Tyni]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:35:47AM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.10.0-11
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> For some unexplicable reason, the debian perl config tries to link -lgdbm
> and a few other libraries against each and every extension built via
> ExtUtils::MakeMaker (-lgdbm_compat and -lcrypt are the others).

Hi Marc,

sorry for the lack of response on this.

I'm not seeing this behaviour, and it would be a serious problem for our
autobuilders so they aren't either. Does it still happen for you?

> But libperl-dev lacks these depencies, so one has to install those manually.

The libperl-dev package is only needed for linking against libperl.so itself,
its dependencies aren't really related to what ExtUtils::MakeMaker needs.

Maybe you mean ExtUtils::Embed? That does list -lcrypt but not -lgdbm here.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org