[OSM-dev] building mapnik & tirex - missing dependency information

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Peter Körner wrote:
> my first question is - do I really need the complete devscripts package? 

You need /usr/bin/debuild to build the .debs and this usually comes from 
the devscripts package.

> But nevertheless I can't get tirex to compile - it's 
> missing dependency information:
> 
> 	dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: no dependency information found for 
> /usr/local/lib/libmapnik.so.0.7

This is not really a compile problem. Your package has basically been 
built, only now the Debian build tools, being proper package managers, 
want to do everything right and store information about required other 
Debian packages in the resulting Tirex package.

To achieve this, the dh_shlibdeps utiliy finds out which libraries have 
been used in compiling (/usr/local/lib/libmapnik.so.0.7) and then 
helpfully tries to find the Debian package from which this library has 
come - in order to record the fact that the newly created Tirex package 
depends on that one. Since you have been a naughty boy and installed 
Mapnik directly and not from a package, this step must fail.

I think that you might be successful by simply commenting out the 
dh_shlibdeps step in debian/control. The resulting Tirex package will 
not have full dependency information but should work on your system!

Better still, build a proper Mapnik Debian package which is what I 
usually do.

Bye
Frederik

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