Re: how to deal with coccinelle version requirements

[Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>]

On 06/04/2015 11:19 AM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> 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

I also took the package from debian on my Ubuntu system, but I also
installed a more recent version of libpcre3, because coccinelle requires
it and is complaining about this in your error message. I used this
package: http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/libpcre3

Hauke