Description of problem: Discovered during a build for OpenEmbedded which separates the host from the cross-compiled packages. The problem is that nss-softokn 3.22 builds a few executables under nss/cmd: bltest, fipstest, lowhashtest and shlibsign. nss/cmd/manifest.mn somewhere after 3.19 moved these out of this protector: ifndef NSS_BUILD_SOFTOKEN_ONLY ifndef NSS_BUILD_UTIL_ONLY ... endif endif and instead lists them under: ifndef NSS_BUILD_UTIL_ONLY ... endif So these executables apparently build for both nss-softokn and nss. However, nss (possibly an older version) is already installed via implicit dependencies. For the OpenEmbedded build I get the errors below where NSS is definitely not installed since it is (1.) a new build from scratch, and (2.) I ported the nss-util/nss-softokn/nss split packages from Fedora with the same explicit dependency ordering (nss -> nss-softokn -> nss-util): | /data/OE/setup-scripts/build/tmp-angstrom_v2014_06-eglibc/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/libexec/i586-sicom-linux/gcc/i586-sicom-linux/4.8.5/ld: error: cannot find -lssl3 | /data/OE/setup-scripts/build/tmp-angstrom_v2014_06-eglibc/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/libexec/i586-sicom-linux/gcc/i586-sicom-linux/4.8.5/ld: error: cannot find -lsmime3 | /data/OE/setup-scripts/build/tmp-angstrom_v2014_06-eglibc/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/libexec/i586-sicom-linux/gcc/i586-sicom-linux/4.8.5/ld: error: cannot find -lnss3 | collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status | make[2]: *** [Linux3.4_x86_glibc_PTH_OPT.OBJ/lowhashtest] Error 1 | make[2]: Leaving directory `/data/OE/setup-scripts/build/tmp-angstrom_v2014_06-eglibc/work/i586-sicom-linux/nss-softokn/3.22-r0/nss-softokn-3.22/nss/cmd/lowhashtest' So, it is only a lucky accident that it builds for Fedora but I consider it cheating. In case some of these commands use a new feature from the current version that is to be build, the build would fail for Fedora. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ rpm -q nss-softokn nss-softokn-3.22.0-1.0.fc23.x86_64 nss-softokn-3.22.0-1.0.fc23.i686 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: nss-softokn implicitly uses nss as its build dependency so the build succeeds. The runtime dependency (causing a dependency loop) is not there because nss-softokn in Fedora doesn't ship the "lowhashtest" binary. Expected results: nss-softokn should not depend on nss. Additional info:
Created attachment 1131940 [details] Patch to avoid building and installing nss/cmd binaries
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