Problem building koffice on an 64bit opensuse 11.0

[Matthew Woehlke]

Michael Jansen wrote:
> (Sent that before but with my other non subscribed account. seems like it 
> didn't get through so here once again. sorry if double posting. )
> 
> I hate to say it but it is probably a good idea to ignore my ramblings in such 
> cases for some days. 
> 
> I think i completely understand the problem now.
> 
> We use --fatal-warnings which means that warning "skipping incompatible 
> /usr/lib/libGL.so when searching for -lGL" becomes an error and the linker 
> stops. If i remove that it links successfully.
> 
> So the questions is who triggers the warning? The problems is GraphicsMagicks 
> pkgconfig file. The package i have installed here has the following snippet on 
> the Libs line: "-l/usr/lib64 -l/usr/lib -l/usr/lib64 -l/usr/lib". This is 
> absolutely unnecessary because the linker would use the correct directory 
> anyway. So here is the first bug imho.
> 
> pkgconfig tries to help and removes the two "-l/usr/lib64" arguments because 
> this is the "system lib dir" and it is pointless to provide it. You can see 
> that with "pkg-config GraphicsMagick --debug --libs". It removes one of the "-
> l/usr/lib" too because it's provided two times. I think we could say this is 
> bug number 2. it should remove /usr/lib on 64 bit systems and /usr/lib64 on 32 
> bit systems when it find them. Is there any chance you link against libs from 
> /usr/lib on a 64 bit system or vice versa?
> 
> So the "-l/usr/lib" finds its way into the linker command and i get my error.
> 
> I just fixed the GraphicsMagick.pc file and everything compiles smoothly. 
> Anyone an idea where to file a bug? With opensuse or GraphicsMagick?

With GraphicsMagick, I think. IIRC I had this same issue on Fedora, 
which means it's upstream at fault. (You should probably try to check if 
I already reported it ;-).)

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Matthew
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