Bug#378511: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#378511: libxml2-dev: libxml2.la's dependency_libs contains -lz, but zlib1g-dev|libz-dev is not depended upon anymore

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 01:06:39AM +0200, Nicolas Boullis <nboullis at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 07:45:03PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > 
> > > This is clearly related to #374017; the fix to this bug was incomplete.
> > > It causes FTBFS in packages that build-depend on libxml2-dev but not
> > > zlib1g-dev|libz-dev, and that use libtool. (See for example #378374.)
> > 
> > In the meanwhile, I remembered that libxslt, that I built with the new
> > libxml2 to verify the changes to libxml2-dev dependencies don't break
> > everything, also uses libtool. So, wondering what was the matter, I also
> > remembered libxslt is autoreconfed.
> > 
> > To solve the problem, then, all you have to do is relibtoolize your
> > package. This can be achieved by running autoreconf. You will need
> > libtool, autoconf2.13 and automake1.9. That solves the issue much better
> > than adding useless build-dep AND dependency on zlib.
> 
> To be honnest, I know very little about libtool (and only little more 
> abour automake and autoconf), so I tried to "autoreconf" my package...
> Unfortunately, it did not make any difference, and I can't understand 
> why you would expect that "relibtoolizing" ou "autoreconfing" the 
> application can fix anything if the problem actually is in 
> /usr/lib/libxml2.la ...

Because libtool in sid does the right thing when it is configured the
proper way. I did try to autoreconf vcdimager and build it, and it
works.
Check the ltmain.sh for the version number, if it doesn't contain
"debian" then try autoreconf -f.

Mike