From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-gw1-out.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.62]:46839 "EHLO mail-gw1-out.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753111AbbFDJTt (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2015 05:19:49 -0400 Received: from [10.176.128.60] (xl-bun-02.bun.broadcom.com [10.176.128.60]) by mail-sj1-12.sj.broadcom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7B9B27A8B for ; Thu, 4 Jun 2015 02:19:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55701831.20700@broadcom.com> (sfid-20150604_112017_589556_586FC9D1) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 11:19:45 +0200 From: Arend van Spriel MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "backports@vger.kernel.org" Subject: how to deal with coccinelle version requirements Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Sender: backports-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I am running a build server on Ubuntu 14.04 and recently had to upgrade coccinelle for backports builds. So I got my hands on a debian package (from launchpad if I recall correctly) and installing it manually gives me following warning: $ sudo dpkg -i coccinelle_1.0.0~rc24.deb-1_amd64.deb Selecting previously unselected package coccinelle. (Reading database ... 309776 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack coccinelle_1.0.0~rc24.deb-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking coccinelle (1.0.0~rc24.deb-1) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of coccinelle: coccinelle depends on libpcre3 (>= 1:8.35); however: Version of libpcre3:amd64 on system is 1:8.31-2ubuntu2. dpkg: error processing package coccinelle (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1) ... Errors were encountered while processing: coccinelle Now spatch is installed and works just fine, but I am getting all kinds of errors when trying to install other packages which kinda sucks. So I tried unstalling coccinelle and just build it from github repo, but that fails for me as well (giving 'Unbound module Pcre'). So can anyone recommend a way to deal with the coccinelle version requirements when running on Ubuntu LTS version. Regards, Arend