Re: Dependancy generation problem.

[Frank Cusack <fcusack fcusack com>]

On September 6, 2005 4:27:59 PM -0400 "Steven W. Orr" <steveo syslang net> wrote:
> I run the rpm -bb and I get this in the output at the end:
>
> Processing files: guard_stap-1.0-1
> Requires(interp): /bin/sh /bin/sh
> Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
> Requires(post): /bin/sh
> Requires(preun): /bin/sh
> Requires: /bin/sh /usr/bin/perl libc.so.6 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.3) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)
> perl(File::Basename) perl(Sys::Syslog)
> Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /var/tmp/guard_stap-root
> Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/guard_stap-1.0-1.i386.rpm
> Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.84050
>
> The problem is that when I go to install it I get the following error:
>
> bash-2.05b$ sudo rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/guard_stap-1.0-1.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>          libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4) is needed by guard_stap-1.0-1
> bash-2.05b$
>
> rpm -q glibc shows that I am running glibc-2.3.2-27.9.7 and there's nothing on here (that I know
> of) that should be causing me to be using 2.3.4.
>
> Can someone help? How can I shut that dependancy off at build time?

Are you installing the rpm on the same machine you built it on?  The
machine you've built on may have a later version of glibc.  Doesn't
seem to be the case from your example, but it's the obvious problem.

Or it may be the case that the machine you're installing on has a corrupt
rpm database, so it doesn't know that the installed libc meets the build
time dependency (the build time dependency comes from the actual installed
library, not anything in the rpm database).  Try
'rpm -q --provides glibc | grep libc' and see if there are a bunch of
versions there.  Then try
'nm /lib/libc.so.6| grep 'A GLIBC_2' and see if it agrees.

-frank