Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 194303
Error: Missing Dependency: libXaw.so.7
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:34 EST
Description of problem: Installing libXaw-1.0.2-2.i386.rpm with yum, [...] Error: Missing Dependency: libXaw.so.7 is needed by package xorg-x11-xkb-utils Error: Missing Dependency: libXaw.so.7 is needed by package xorg-x11-server-utils Error: Missing Dependency: libXaw.so.7 is needed by package xterm Error: Missing Dependency: libXaw.so.7 is needed by package xorg-x11-utils Error: Missing Dependency: libXaw.so.7 is needed by package xorg-x11-apps $ rpm -qp --provides libXaw-1.0.2-2.i386.rpm libXaw6.so.6 libXaw7.so.7 libXaw = 1.0.2-2 But $ rpm -qpl libXaw-1.0.2-2.i386.rpm | grep libXaw.so.7 /usr/lib/libXaw.so.7 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.0.2-2 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. $yum update libXaw 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: $ rpm -q --provides libXaw-1.0.2-1 libXaw.so.6 libXaw.so.7 libXaw = 1.0.2-1
Numerous rpm packages have recently started failing to build, claiming that XAW could not be found, even though the packages were installed correctly. This was first reported to us in an xorg-x11-resutils bug, which ./configure was unable to detect XAW being present. Additionally, many people have experienced the error you are reporting above, which is caused by the same problem. Yesterday we investigated this, and oddly enough, the problem was not reproduceable on rpmbuild builds, nor in beehive. It only occured when building using mock. The library would build, and get packaged seemingly ok, but nothing could find it after that. The problem was tracked down by Bill Nottingham, who determined that the libXaw sonames were being incorrectly generated. He further tracked the problem down to being a missing build dependency. A new libXaw package has been built with: BuildRequires: ed This allows it to build correctly and get the right soname. Assuming there are no other hidden issues, all packages that require libXaw should be buildable now, and the reported error above should vanish as well. It is possible that all software which links to libXaw may need to be recompiled, so if you encounter any problems, please attempt to recompile the given application's src.rpm to see if that fixes it before reporting a bug against that component. Thanks.