From: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>,
"backports@vger.kernel.org" <backports@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how to deal with coccinelle version requirements
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 11:24:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55701954.101@hauke-m.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55701831.20700@broadcom.com>
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
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2015-06-04 9:19 how to deal with coccinelle version requirements Arend van Spriel
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2015-06-04 9:46 ` Arend van Spriel
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