Claws mail build fails because it can't find /lib/libgpg-error.la

[James Westby]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 11:37:06 -0500, Barry Warsaw <barry at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> I've spent a couple of days on and off chasing an annoying bug in Claws Mail:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/claws-mail/+bug/724416
> 
> I've got a hint of a fix from upstream[1], which I'm trying to build and test,
> but unfortunately, there's a little bit of yak shaving first.  The unchanged
> Natty package does not build for me either locally in an sbuild, or in a PPA.
> 
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/65408435/buildlog_ubuntu-natty-amd64.claws-mail_3.7.8-1ubuntu4~ppa0_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz
> 
> Claws was last built in the archive six weeks ago.  Since then, libgpg-error
> was rebuilt, and I think the linker changes landed.  I don't know whether
> either of those changes are related to the build failures in Claws, but it at
> least seems related.
> 
> Note that there's a /usr/lib/libgpg-error.so file and a
> /usr/lib/libgpg-error.la file, but no /lib/libgpg-error.la file.  I haven't
> yet been able to figure out why Claws' build wants to find it in /lib instead
> of /usr/lib.

libgpgme11-dev contains a .la file that references /lib/libgpg-error.la,
which is where this path is being picked up from.

It may be that gpgme1.0 (source package of libgpgme11-dev) needs a
rebuild to pick up the new path.

Thanks,

James