Re: how to deal with coccinelle version requirements

[Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>]

On 06/04/15 11:24, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> 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

Thanks, Hauke

I did not like going down the path of picking up individual packages, 
but alas. For now it is working.

Regards,
Arend