Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 164601
libtool requires gcc 3.4.3
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:10 EST
gcc 3.4.4 was released as an update for FC3 some days ago. The last released libtool however requiers gcc = 3.4.3 (as seen if you do rpm -q libtool -R). I don't know if this breaks anything and that the current libtool really need 3.4.3, I just noticed the package problem and wanted to report that.
It is a problem even at the packaging level, if you upgrade the compiler the resulting dependencies are broken and, for example, apt-get cannot be used to install packages until the problem is fixed. Is there an fix for this being considered? -- Fernando
ping. Usually libtool is recompiled when gcc is, but it wasn't this round... See also #164774
Fixed package should show up in -testing soon. Please test and tell me if it really fixes this issue so that I can move it to -final
I can confirm that libtool works (since abiword depends on libtool, and it installed successfully).
The fixes in -testing (Aug 15) still require gcc 3.4.3 instead of 3.4.4. $ rpm -qp -R libtool-1.5.6-4.FC3.3.i386.rpm | grep gcc gcc = 3.4.3 The most recent gcc update is 3.4.4: $ rpm -qi gcc Name : gcc Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 3.4.4 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 2.fc3 Build Date: Fri 22 Jul 2005 07:12:03 AM MDT Build Host: tweety.build.redhat.com Group : Development/Languages Source RPM: gcc-3.4.4-2.fc3.src.rpm Size : 12904777 License: GPL Signature : DSA/SHA1, Wed 27 Jul 2005 09:52:15 AM MDT, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2 ================================== FWIW, i believe the abiword package mentioned in comment #4 is direct from abiword.com, not the FC build. The FC build doesn't require libtool.
This update is completely unnecessary. gcc-3.4.4 has hacks which make it provide both 3.4.3 and 3.4.4 directories (designed originally for RHEL4). So libtool can keep its old requirement and it ought to work just fine.
But this breaks fedora Core 3 for all apt users since those hacks seem not to work with apt.
Yes, the problem is that libtool requiers gcc=3.4.3 in the rpm header, and that package is not installed anymore. When you run apt-get you run into this: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libtool: Depends: gcc (= 3.4.3) but 3.4.4-2.fc3 is installed Of course one can downgrade gcc again if one want to use apt-get, but it still looks like a bug in the libtool rpm to me.
The update is necessary. Currently the dependency tree of Fedora Core 3 including the officially released Updates is broken and needs to be fixed. Downgrading gcc is not really a good option, fixing libtool's dependencies is the right thing to do. I would imagine there would be a tool that checks dependencies for the whole distro before updates are released?
The released version has the same problem I reported in comment #5.
[wtogami@devserv i386]$ rpm -qp gcc-3.4.4-2.fc3.i386.rpm --provides gcc = 3.4.3-26 gcc34 gcc = 3.4.4-2.fc3 [wtogami@devserv i386]$ rpm -qp --requires libtool-1.5.6-4.FC3.2.i386.rpm |grep gcc gcc = 3.4.3 These are the latest gcc and libtool in FC3 updates. They clearly match dependencies, as you can see if you install them manually with rpm. This is an apt bug where it is failing to see both gcc versions provided by gcc. It is seeing on the newest version. apt has several other problems handling virtual provide dependencies like this. I used to be a big apt proponent, but now that upstream has given up and key capabilities like multilib will never happen, I now consider apt to be a dead-end. Please stop using it if you want a fully working system in Fedora.
Thanks Warren for the details... too bad... Still, it would be nice if compatibility could be maintained with apt (which is also part of fedora extras - no, this is not a request for it to be erased from extras :-) As I now know this is not a problem with libtool compatibility I'll have to release a fixed (yes, I know it is not strictly "broken") package so that apt continues to work unaffected in Planet CCRMA (what I maintain). A complete change over to yum is not yet an option. (BTW, yum ~= apt; ? ~= synaptic)
Sorry, it would be wrong to push an update only to workaround a buggy client that upstream development even gave up on. The correct course of action would be to fix these bugs in apt, or move on to one of the better supported new software. http://smartpm.org/ Conectiva^WMandriva has moved on to a total rewrite called smartpm, which has a GUI interface too. smartpm has a key advantage over apt or yum in that it can use any existing RPM repository, not limited to just apt or yum. yum has two different GUI interfaces currently in Fedora Extras called kyum and yumex. Both are considered to be not so great. We hope to write a FC included yum GUI interface called pup for FC5.
I know it is not the best choice, but it is the only course of action that I currently have given the resources I have available. I can't debug apt and I can't switch to yum, so it is the proverbial "between a rock and a hard place". Not that many users have run into this problem but when they do I don't have a solution (other than say use yum, of course).
*** Bug 166978 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This non bug applies to all package managers that check dependencies (which is all of them) so Up2Date, apt, and synaptic will not install Libtool (I haven't tried yum but I suspect it won't either) and I want to install it because Kdevelop needs it. So is it going to be fixed and when. Sorry to be a nag.
I stoped using apt-get because of this and changed to yum, and it doesn't complain about the dependency. I don't know if it would have installed libtool by itself but at least it doesn't complain now after it is installed (as apt-get did). As Warren Togami pointed out, gcc provides both versions so the dependency check should not fail.
I've had this probably for about a month now using yum on FC3. I haven't tried any other package managers. If I run yum update, I get: --> Processing Dependency: gcc = 3.4.2 for package: libtool --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: gcc = 3.4.2 is needed by package libtool If I run yum update gcc.i386, I get: Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package gcc.i386 0:3.4.4-2.fc3 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: gcc = 3.4.2 for package: libtool --> Processing Dependency: gcc = 3.4.3-22.fc3 for package: gcc-c++ --> Processing Dependency: gcc = 3.4.3-22.fc3 for package: gcc-g77 --> Processing Dependency: gcc = 3.4.3-22.fc3 for package: gcc-java --> Processing Dependency: libgcc >= 3.4.4-2.fc3 for package: gcc --> Processing Dependency: gcc = 3.4.3-22.fc3 for package: gcc-objc --> Processing Dependency: cpp = 3.4.4-2.fc3 for package: gcc --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package cpp.i386 0:3.4.4-2.fc3 set to be updated ---> Package libgcc.i386 0:3.4.4-2.fc3 set to be updated ---> Package gcc-g77.i386 0:3.4.4-2.fc3 set to be updated ---> Package gcc-c++.i386 0:3.4.4-2.fc3 set to be updated ---> Package gcc-objc.i386 0:3.4.4-2.fc3 set to be updated ---> Package gcc-java.i386 0:3.4.4-2.fc3 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: gcc = 3.4.2 for package: libtool --> Processing Dependency: libobjc = 3.4.4-2.fc3 for package: gcc-objc --> Processing Dependency: libstdc++-devel = 3.4.4 for package: gcc-c++ --> Processing Dependency: libstdc++ = 3.4.4 for package: gcc-c++ --> Processing Dependency: libf2c = 3.4.4-2.fc3 for package: gcc-g77 --> Processing Dependency: libgcj-devel >= 3.4.4 for package: gcc-java --> Processing Dependency: libgcj >= 3.4.4 for package: gcc-java --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package libgcj.i386 0:3.4.4-2.fc3 set to be updated ---> Package libf2c.i386 0:3.4.4-2.fc3 set to be updated ---> Package libstdc++-devel.i386 0:3.4.4-2.fc3 set to be updated ---> Package libobjc.i386 0:3.4.4-2.fc3 set to be updated ---> Package libstdc++.i386 0:3.4.4-2.fc3 set to be updated ---> Package libgcj-devel.i386 0:3.4.4-2.fc3 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: gcc = 3.4.2 for package: libtool --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: gcc = 3.4.2 is needed by package libtool Curiously enough, I don't even have gcc 3.4.2 installed I have 3.4.3: # gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.4.3 20050227 (Red Hat 3.4.3-22.fc3)
Re #17. You're right, yum installed it with no compliants. Synaptic complains that I now have a broken package but I can live with that.
*** Bug 168035 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***