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From: Herbert Poetzl (herbert_at_13thfloor.at)
Date: Mon 15 Aug 2005 - 14:14:52 BST


On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 02:35:16PM +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> hk_at_kapper.net (Harald Kapper) writes:
>
> >>It was really trivial (<5 min) to take the 207 and make 208 debs. I've
> >>posted my source packages at http://www.complete.org/~jgoerzen/vs/ for
> >>anyone that wants them.
> >>
> >>They include fix1.
> >
> > thanks for the dsc - one odd thing came up through building -
> > it claimed (though installed) that beecrypt couldn't be found
>
> Seems to be a bug in the Debian beecrypt library. Somehow, functions
> which can be optimized were not built for i386. E.g. the seen error
> (beecrypt not detected) is caused by things like
>
> | /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.2/../../../../lib/libbeecrypt.so: undefined reference to `mppndiv'

as a matter of fact gcc 4.0.2 + binutil 2.16.x miscompile
a lot of other packages too, so this seems to be a general
debian breakage ...

best is to downgrade to a working gcc/binutils ...

> Indeed, [1] does not define it but non-i386 archs (e.g. [2]) or
> non-Debian libraries contain this function:
>
> | $ nm -D usr/lib/libbeecrypt.so.6.4.0 | grep mppndiv
> | U mppndiv
> | $ file usr/lib/libbeecrypt.so.6.4.0
> | usr/lib/libbeecrypt.so.6.4.0: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped
>
>
> | $ nm -D usr/lib/libbeecrypt.so.6.4.0 | grep mppndiv
> | 000124a4 T mppndiv
> | $ file usr/lib/libbeecrypt.so.6.4.0
> | usr/lib/libbeecrypt.so.6.4.0: ELF 32-bit MSB shared object, PowerPC or cisco 4500, version 1 (SYSV), stripped
>
> Somebody should report it at the Debian bugtracking system.

I guess there are already a bunch of bugreports, but
it can't hurt to report it nevertheless ...

HTH,
Herbert

> Enrico
>
> Footnotes:
> [1] ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/beecrypt/libbeecrypt6_4.1.2-1_i386.deb
> [2] ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/beecrypt/libbeecrypt6_4.1.2-1_powerpc.deb

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