Bug 141161

Summary: sysfsutils package misses /lib/libsysfs.la
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 Reporter: Holger Macht <hmacht>
Component: DevelopmentAssignee: Hannes Reinecke <hare>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Critical    
Priority: P5 - None CC: hare
Version: Alpha 4   
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Description Holger Macht 2006-01-01 21:43:07 UTC 
In the current sysfsutils package, /lib/libsysfs.la is missing. /usr/lib/libsysfs.la states:

# Directory that this library needs to be installed in:
libdir='/lib'

This causes other packages, e.g. cpufrequtils to assume that it must be below /lib. When trying to link against cpufrequtils, it looks for /lib/libsysfs.la and fails because of a wrong entry in /usr/lib/libcpufreq.la.

It is really confusing and weird, but I think it has something to do with the manual moving of shared libraries within the specfile of sysfsutils.
Comment 1 Holger Macht 2006-01-03 17:18:49 UTC 
We cannot go on with our powersave development until this is fixed. Raising severity. I just hope that my assumption that the problem lies within sysfsutils is correct ;-)
Comment 2 Holger Macht 2006-01-11 14:24:58 UTC 
I investigated further. /lib/libsysfs.la is moved manually to /usr/lib/ because our buildsystem refuses to install *.la files in /lib. But the path in libsysfs.la (libdir='/lib', comment #1) still points to /lib.

So it seems that we have two possibilities:

1. Adjust the path inside libsysfs.la to point to /usr/lib:
   
   sed -e "s:libdir='/%{_lib}':libdir='%{_libdir}':" -i %{buildroot}/%{_libdir}/libsysfs.la

 Already tested to link agains libcpufreq and things seem to works. Hopefully it won't break other packages.

2. Don't even install shared libraries in /lib. Instead use /usr/lib (--libdir=%{_libdir} instead of --libdir=%{_lib))

  This would be the cleaner solution IMO, but I don't know what were the reasons for sysfsutils to install its libraries below /lib.

I can submit new packages if you like. I just need to know which solution is preferred ;-)
Comment 3 Holger Macht 2006-01-12 16:10:01 UTC 
I chose option 1 and submitted a new package.