Package: libspnav0
Version: 1.0-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3
User: debian...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: undefined-symbol adequate

libspnav.so needs to link with -lm, see the output of adequate, symtree
and objdump below. I detected this on amd64 but the Debian build log
scanner also detected dpkg-buildpackage complaining about it on most
architectures, see the w3m/getbuildlog output below.

I filed this bug at severity minor since I'm not sure if there are any
programs using the libspnav.so lib and if they already use the libm.so
symbols and link with the -lm flag or not.

This bug report brought to you by adequate:

https://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2013/02/23/inadequate-software/

$ lib=/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3
$ link=/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6
$ pkg="$(dpkg-query --search "$lib" | sed s/:.*//)"
$ src="$(grep-aptavail --no-field-names --show-field Source:Package --field 
Package --exact-match --pattern "$pkg" | sed 's/ .*//')"
$ first="$(printf '%s' "$src" | head --bytes 1)"

$ adequate "$pkg"
libspnav0: undefined-symbol /usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 => sincos
libspnav0: undefined-symbol /usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 => sqrt

$ man adequate | grep -A4 undefined-symbol
       undefined-symbol
           The symbol has not been found in the libraries linked with the 
binary.
           Either the binary either needs to be linked with an additional shared
           library, or the dependency on the shared library package that 
provides
           this symbol is too weak.

           References: Debian Policy §3.5, §8.6, §10.2.

$ lddtree "$lib"
/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 (interpreter => None)
    libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
        libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1
            libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6
            libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6
                libbsd.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0
                    libmd.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmd.so.0
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2
    libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
        ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2

$ symtree "$lib"
/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3
    libX11.so.6 => 
XGetErrorText,XNextEvent,XSync,XSetErrorHandler,XFree,XInternAtom,XCheckIfEvent,XSendEvent,XPending,XGetWMName,XGetWindowProperty
    libc.so.6 => 
__fdelt_chk,__cxa_finalize,fgets,read,strchr,malloc,write,connect,__fprintf_chk,strcmp,socket,fopen,select,__ctype_b_loc,free,close,strncpy,strlen,getenv,__memcpy_chk,stderr,__errno_location,__stack_chk_fail
    WEAK => _ITM_deregisterTMCloneTable,__gmon_start__,_ITM_registerTMCloneTable
    UNRESOLVED => sincos,sqrt

$ objdump -T "$link" | grep -E " ($(symtree "$lib" | sed -n 's/    UNRESOLVED 
=> //p' | tr , '|'))$"
000000000002d7e0  w   DF .text  0000000000000a82  GLIBC_2.2.5 sincos
0000000000010480  w   DF .text  000000000000002a  GLIBC_2.2.5 sqrt

$ w3m -dump https://qa.debian.org/bls/packages/"$first"/"$src".html | grep -A2 
symbol
  • W shlibs-symbol-not-found (alpha, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, hppa,
    hurd-i386, i386, m68k, mips64el, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64, ppc64el, riscv64,
    s390x, sh4, sparc64, x32)

$ w3m -dump https://qa.debian.org/bls/bytag/W-shlibs-symbol-not-found.html | 
grep -A12 description
description

The build logs contains a line like

dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol NAME used by BINARY found in none of the 
libraries.

Possible reasons:

  • A library not linked with a library needed.
    While this can sometimes make sense in order to allow the using binary to
    decide which of multiple available implementations to use, it means that
    dependency information might be incorrect, optimisations like prelinking
    might fail and stuff like that.

$ chronic getbuildlog "$src" last
$ grep 'dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol .* used by .* found in none of the 
libraries' ./*.log
./libspnav_1.0-1_alpha.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sqrt used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_alpha.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sincos used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_amd64.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sincos used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_amd64.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sqrt used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_arm64.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sqrt used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_arm64.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sincos used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_armel.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sincos used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_armel.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sqrt used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_armhf.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sincos used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_armhf.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sqrt used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_hppa.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sqrt used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_hppa.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sincos used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_hurd-i386.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sqrt used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_hurd-i386.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sincos used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_i386.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sincos used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_i386.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sqrt used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_m68k.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sqrt used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_m68k.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sincos used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_mips64el.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sincos used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_mips64el.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sqrt used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_mipsel.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sincos used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_mipsel.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sqrt used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_powerpc.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sqrt used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_powerpc.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sincos used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_ppc64el.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sqrt used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_ppc64el.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sincos used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_ppc64.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sqrt used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_ppc64.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sincos used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_riscv64.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sqrt used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_riscv64.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sincos used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_s390x.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sqrt used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_s390x.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sincos used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_sh4.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sincos used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_sh4.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sqrt used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_sparc64.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sincos used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_sparc64.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sqrt used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_x32.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sincos used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries
./libspnav_1.0-1_x32.log:dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol sqrt used by 
debian/libspnav0/usr/lib/libspnav.so.0.3 found in none of the libraries

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (900, 'testing-debug'), (900, 'testing'), (800, 
'unstable-debug'), (800, 'unstable'), (790, 'buildd-unstable'), (700, 
'experimental-debug'), (700, 'experimental'), (690, 'buildd-experimental')
merged-usr: no
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.18.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libspnav0 depends on:
ii  libc6     2.34-4
ii  libx11-6  2:1.8.1-2

libspnav0 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libspnav0 suggests:
pn  spacenavd  <none>

-- no debconf information

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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