[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#786673: Bug#786673: FTBFS: Package libbase58 was not found in the pkg-config search path

[Dmitry Smirnov]

Control: tags -1 pending

On Sun, 24 May 2015 12:04:27 Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> A binary-only rebuild of bfgminer for the libblkmaker transition failed to
> build.

Thanks for keeping an eye on the package. However you have filed this bug so 
fast (~24 hours since upload of libblkmaker) that I simply did not manage to 
move "bfgminer" from experimental to unstable in time...


> This seems to be because libbase58-0 does not contain a .pc file, so
> pkg-config fails to find it when required as a dependency of libblkmaker.
> 
> To confirm this I created a local libbase58.pc file and the build succeeded.

Not sure what are you talking about as "libbase58-dev" contains "libbase58.pc"


> I'm not sure if this is a bug in libbase58 for not carrying a .pc file,

Definitely not it.


> or in libblkmaker which grew the dependency on it,

It is true that "libblkmaker" needs libbase58.


> or bfgminer for failing when pkg-config fails.

It is something in "bfgminer" -- whatever it is new upstream release fixes 
that.


> Please double-check my diagnosis and reassign as appropriate.

No worries and thanks.

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