On Monday 01 October 2007, Margarita Manterola wrote:
> From what I found out, this is not true and this bug should be closed
> as invalid.

No. This issue is completely valid.

The .la file shipped with libsword-dev references libcurl.la. 

> > configure:32801: /bin/sh ./libtool --silent --mode=link g++ -o conftest
> > -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500
> > -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W
> > -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -O2 -g -Wall -O2
> > -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -fno-exceptions
> > -fno-check-new -fno-common -fexceptions -I$ -I/usr/include/kde
> > -I/usr/share/qt3/include -I.  -I/usr/include/sword  -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT 
> > -D_REENTRANT -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -Wall
> > -I$(top_srcdir)/ -I$(top_srcdir)/bibletime -I$(top_builddir)/bibletime 
> > -L/usr/lib conftest.cpp -lsword -lz 1>&5 libtool: link: cannot find the
> > library `/usr/lib/libcurl.la'
>
> The problem is in bibletime's libtool, which is antique.  Running the
> same line with the same conftest file with Debian's current libtool
> gives no errors.
>
> I could find no evidence that libsword-dev really needs to include
> libcurl*-dev as a dependency, this is only a workaround for a problem
> in bibletime.

Instead of adding a dependency, a better fix would be to fix the .la file to 
not include the reference to libcurl.la if it is not needed.

/Sune



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