Re: Advice on handling optional dependencies or packaging yp-tools

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

On mer., 05 avril 2023 at 16:04, Kyle Andrews <kyle@posteo.net> wrote:

> The package uses autotools and friends. I thought I had figured out most
> of the build dependencies. However, now I'm not so sure. The current
> error mentions the libcom library which in debian depends on epics-base
> and doesn't appear to be provided by Guix.

Hum, the error I get is:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
starting phase `validate-runpath'
validating RUNPATH of 5 binaries in 
"/gnu/store/1n9n6lwvb9c9pssi2qrnr5s7w69d59jb-yp-tools-v4.2.3/bin"...
/gnu/store/1n9n6lwvb9c9pssi2qrnr5s7w69d59jb-yp-tools-v4.2.3/bin/domainname: 
error: depends on 'libgssapi_krb5.so.2', which cannot be found in RUNPATH 
("/gnu/store/6psyyc0rm4ndkx7hz6lbzpqfb5qn0js9-libnsl-1.3.0/lib" 
"/gnu/store/nvqxvcx05jgixpnshxp9nypacwc2mri2-libtirpc-1.3.1/lib" 
"/gnu/store/5h2w4qi9hk1qzzgi1w83220ydslinr4s-glibc-2.33/lib" 
"/gnu/store/094bbaq6glba86h1d4cj16xhdi6fk2jl-gcc-10.3.0-lib/lib")
/gnu/store/1n9n6lwvb9c9pssi2qrnr5s7w69d59jb-yp-tools-v4.2.3/bin/domainname: 
error: depends on 'libkrb5.so.3', which cannot be found in RUNPATH 
("/gnu/store/6psyyc0rm4ndkx7hz6lbzpqfb5qn0js9-libnsl-1.3.0/lib" 
"/gnu/store/nvqxvcx05jgixpnshxp9nypacwc2mri2-libtirpc-1.3.1/lib" 
"/gnu/store/5h2w4qi9hk1qzzgi1w83220ydslinr4s-glibc-2.33/lib" 
"/gnu/store/094bbaq6glba86h1d4cj16xhdi6fk2jl-gcc-10.3.0-lib/lib")
/gnu/store/1n9n6lwvb9c9pssi2qrnr5s7w69d59jb-yp-tools-v4.2.3/bin/domainname: 
error: depends on 'libk5crypto.so.3', which cannot be found in RUNPATH 
("/gnu/store/6psyyc0rm4ndkx7hz6lbzpqfb5qn0js9-libnsl-1.3.0/lib" 
"/gnu/store/nvqxvcx05jgixpnshxp9nypacwc2mri2-libtirpc-1.3.1/lib" 
"/gnu/store/5h2w4qi9hk1qzzgi1w83220ydslinr4s-glibc-2.33/lib" 
"/gnu/store/094bbaq6glba86h1d4cj16xhdi6fk2jl-gcc-10.3.0-lib/lib")
/gnu/store/1n9n6lwvb9c9pssi2qrnr5s7w69d59jb-yp-tools-v4.2.3/bin/domainname: 
error: depends on 'libcom_err.so.3', which cannot be found in RUNPATH 
("/gnu/store/6psyyc0rm4ndkx7hz6lbzpqfb5qn0js9-libnsl-1.3.0/lib" 
"/gnu/store/nvqxvcx05jgixpnshxp9nypacwc2mri2-libtirpc-1.3.1/lib" 
"/gnu/store/5h2w4qi9hk1qzzgi1w83220ydslinr4s-glibc-2.33/lib" 
"/gnu/store/094bbaq6glba86h1d4cj16xhdi6fk2jl-gcc-10.3.0-lib/lib")
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Well, I do not know what is missing.  Which package provides
libgssapi_krb5?


Cheers,
simon