Bug#766811: spurious library links

Bug#766811: spurious library links

[Marco d'Itri]

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Package: xfslibs-dev
Version: 3.2.1
Severity: normal

These links do not appear to have any purpose and should be removed:

/lib/libhandle.a -> /usr/lib/libhandle.a
/lib/libhandle.la -> /usr/lib/libhandle.la
/usr/lib/libhandle.so -> /lib/libhandle.so

Also, policy forbids to thip the .la files at all for normal libraries.

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Bug#766811: spurious library links

[Marco d'Itri]

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On Oct 26, Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> wrote:

> These links do not appear to have any purpose and should be removed:
> 
> /lib/libhandle.a -> /usr/lib/libhandle.a
> /lib/libhandle.la -> /usr/lib/libhandle.la
> /usr/lib/libhandle.so -> /lib/libhandle.so
> 
> Also, policy forbids to thip the .la files at all for normal libraries.
This is an obvious bug and I have not heard back from you in over one
year, what are your plans about fixing this? Do you need help?

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Bug#766811: spurious library links

[Jakub Wilk]

Control: found -1 4.3.0

* Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it>, 2014-10-26, 02:48:
>These links do not appear to have any purpose and should be removed:
>
>/lib/libhandle.a -> /usr/lib/libhandle.a
>/lib/libhandle.la -> /usr/lib/libhandle.la
>/usr/lib/libhandle.so -> /lib/libhandle.so

I can still see them in the current version:

$ dpkg -c xfslibs-dev_4.3.0_amd64.deb | grep ^l.*/usr/lib/libhandle
lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2015-11-27 01:33 ./usr/lib/libhandle.so -> /lib/libhandle.so
lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2015-11-27 01:33 ./lib/libhandle.a -> /usr/lib/libhandle.a
lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2015-11-27 01:33 ./lib/libhandle.la -> /usr/lib/libhandle.la

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Bug#766811: spurious library links

[Marco d'Itri]

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On Jan 24, Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> wrote:

> I can still see them in the current version:
You are right, I was fooled because the extra files disappear if you 
rebuild the package:

md@bongo:/tmp/xfs/xfsprogs-4.3.0+nmu1$ find debian/|grep libhandle
debian/xfslibs-dev/lib/libhandle.so
debian/xfslibs-dev/usr/lib/libhandle.a
debian/xfslibs-dev/usr/lib/libhandle.la
debian/xfsprogs/lib/libhandle.so.1
debian/xfsprogs/lib/libhandle.so.1.0.3

So I wonder if this was a libtool bug and we just need to request 
a binnmu of the package.

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Bug#766811: spurious library links

[Jakub Wilk]

* Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it>, 2016-02-06, 01:58:
>>I can still see them in the current version:
>You are right, I was fooled because the extra files disappear if you
>rebuild the package:
>
>md@bongo:/tmp/xfs/xfsprogs-4.3.0+nmu1$ find debian/|grep libhandle
>debian/xfslibs-dev/lib/libhandle.so
>debian/xfslibs-dev/usr/lib/libhandle.a
>debian/xfslibs-dev/usr/lib/libhandle.la
>debian/xfsprogs/lib/libhandle.so.1
>debian/xfsprogs/lib/libhandle.so.1.0.3

I can't reproduce this disappearance in a clean up-to-date sid chroot.

AFAICS this is the code responsible for creating /lib/libfoo <-> 
/usr/lib/libfoo symlinks (see include/buildmacros:79):

if [ "x$(shell readlink -f $(PKG_LIB_DIR))" != \
     "x$(shell readlink -f $(PKG_ROOT_LIB_DIR))" ]; then \
        ../$(INSTALL) -S $(PKG_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).a $(PKG_ROOT_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).a; \
        ../$(INSTALL) -S $(PKG_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).la $(PKG_ROOT_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).la; \
        ../$(INSTALL) -S $(PKG_ROOT_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).so $(PKG_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).so; \
fi

I guess the symlinks weren't created on your system only because your 
/lib is symlinked to /usr/lib.

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Bug#766811: spurious library links

[Marco d'Itri]

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On Feb 06, Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> wrote:

> AFAICS this is the code responsible for creating /lib/libfoo <->
> /usr/lib/libfoo symlinks (see include/buildmacros:79):
> 
> if [ "x$(shell readlink -f $(PKG_LIB_DIR))" != \
>     "x$(shell readlink -f $(PKG_ROOT_LIB_DIR))" ]; then \
>        ../$(INSTALL) -S $(PKG_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).a $(PKG_ROOT_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).a; \
>        ../$(INSTALL) -S $(PKG_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).la $(PKG_ROOT_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).la; \
>        ../$(INSTALL) -S $(PKG_ROOT_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).so $(PKG_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).so; \
> fi

Right. Nathan, this code path is not used on Red Hat and SuSE, which 
already implemented a merged /usr, and it has always been wrong on 
Debian: I think it should just be removed from the upstream package.
Should I NMU?

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Bug#766811: spurious library links

[Nathan Scott]

----- Original Message -----
> [..]
> Right. Nathan, this code path is not used on Red Hat and SuSE, which
> already implemented a merged /usr, and it has always been wrong on
> Debian: I think it should just be removed from the upstream package.
> Should I NMU?

Please go right ahead Marco - many thanks!

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Bug#766811: spurious library links

[Michael Biebl]

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Hi Nathan

On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 22:20:23 -0500 (EST) Nathan Scott
<nathans@debian.org> wrote:

> > Should I NMU?
> 
> Please go right ahead Marco - many thanks!

So this NMU happened, but unfortunately your followup maintainer upload,
i.e. 4.5.0 did not include the changes from the NMU.

Nathan, could you make another upload including the fix from Marco?

I've attached the debdiff which still seems to apply against 4.9.0

Seeing that this issue already caused two duplicates being filed, I'd
say it's worth fixing for stretch.

Regards,
Michael

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diff -Nru xfsprogs-4.3.0/debian/changelog xfsprogs-4.3.0+nmu1/debian/changelog
--- xfsprogs-4.3.0/debian/changelog	2015-11-27 00:38:33.000000000 +0100
+++ xfsprogs-4.3.0+nmu1/debian/changelog	2016-02-10 04:39:50.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+xfsprogs (4.3.0+nmu1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * Disabled the code in include/buildmacros which creates bogus symlinks
+    for libraries. (Closes: #766811)
+
+ -- Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it>  Wed, 10 Feb 2016 04:24:23 +0100
+
 xfsprogs (4.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream release
diff -Nru xfsprogs-4.3.0/include/buildmacros xfsprogs-4.3.0+nmu1/include/buildmacros
--- xfsprogs-4.3.0/include/buildmacros	2015-09-11 03:51:36.000000000 +0200
+++ xfsprogs-4.3.0+nmu1/include/buildmacros	2016-02-10 04:39:50.000000000 +0100
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
 	../$(INSTALL) -m 644 $(LIBNAME).lai $(PKG_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).la ; \
 	../$(INSTALL) -m 755 -d $(PKG_ROOT_LIB_DIR); \
 	../$(INSTALL) -T so_base $(LIBNAME).lai $(PKG_ROOT_LIB_DIR); \
-	if [ "x$(shell readlink -f $(PKG_LIB_DIR))" != \
+	if false && [ "x$(shell readlink -f $(PKG_LIB_DIR))" != \
 	     "x$(shell readlink -f $(PKG_ROOT_LIB_DIR))" ]; then \
 		../$(INSTALL) -S $(PKG_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).a $(PKG_ROOT_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).a; \
 		../$(INSTALL) -S $(PKG_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).la $(PKG_ROOT_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).la; \

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Bug#766811: spurious library links

[Michael Biebl]

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Hi Nathan,

thanks for your quick reply

Am 17.03.2017 um 13:22 schrieb Nathan Scott:
>> So this NMU happened, but unfortunately your followup maintainer upload,
>> i.e. 4.5.0 did not include the changes from the NMU.
> 
> (d'oh, these changes needs to be sent upstream to the kernel.org
> <http://kernel.org> XFS list)

I'm not sure about Marco, but I don't know the procedures getting a
patch into xfsprogs. So I would very much prefer if you forward the
patch to the right people.

>> Nathan, could you make another upload including the fix from Marco?
> 
> I'm currently traveling and will be unable to attend to this for some time.

Should Marco or myself do another NMU then? I would send you an updated
debdiff in this case.

Regards,
Michael

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Bug#766811: spurious library links

[Michael Biebl]

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Am 17.03.2017 um 16:50 schrieb Nathan Scott:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Yes, please go right ahead with NMU -

Done. I've just uploaded xfsprogs_4.9.0+nmu1

 I will follow up with the XFS
> folks when I can.

debdiff is attached. It slightly differs from Marco's original patch.
Instead of disabling the code, I simply removed it. This should be more
suitable for upstreaming.

Regards,
Michael

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diff -Nru xfsprogs-4.9.0/debian/changelog xfsprogs-4.9.0+nmu1/debian/changelog
--- xfsprogs-4.9.0/debian/changelog	2017-01-05 23:05:55.000000000 +0100
+++ xfsprogs-4.9.0+nmu1/debian/changelog	2017-03-17 19:27:58.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+xfsprogs (4.9.0+nmu1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * Remove code in include/buildmacros which creates bogus symlinks for
+    libraries. (Closes: #766811)
+
+ -- Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>  Fri, 17 Mar 2017 19:27:58 +0100
+
 xfsprogs (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream release
diff -Nru xfsprogs-4.9.0/include/buildmacros xfsprogs-4.9.0+nmu1/include/buildmacros
--- xfsprogs-4.9.0/include/buildmacros	2017-01-05 23:05:55.000000000 +0100
+++ xfsprogs-4.9.0+nmu1/include/buildmacros	2017-03-17 19:27:58.000000000 +0100
@@ -75,13 +75,7 @@
 	../$(INSTALL) -m 644 -T old_lib $(LIBNAME).lai $(PKG_LIB_DIR); \
 	../$(INSTALL) -m 644 $(LIBNAME).lai $(PKG_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).la ; \
 	../$(INSTALL) -m 755 -d $(PKG_ROOT_LIB_DIR); \
-	../$(INSTALL) -T so_base $(LIBNAME).lai $(PKG_ROOT_LIB_DIR); \
-	if [ "x$(shell readlink -f $(PKG_LIB_DIR))" != \
-	     "x$(shell readlink -f $(PKG_ROOT_LIB_DIR))" ]; then \
-		../$(INSTALL) -S $(PKG_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).a $(PKG_ROOT_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).a; \
-		../$(INSTALL) -S $(PKG_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).la $(PKG_ROOT_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).la; \
-		../$(INSTALL) -S $(PKG_ROOT_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).so $(PKG_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).so; \
-	fi
+	../$(INSTALL) -T so_base $(LIBNAME).lai $(PKG_ROOT_LIB_DIR);
 else
 INSTALL_LTLIB_DEV = $(INSTALL_LTLIB_STATIC)
 endif

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Bug#766811: marked as done (spurious library links)

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Package: xfslibs-dev
Version: 3.2.1
Severity: normal

These links do not appear to have any purpose and should be removed:

/lib/libhandle.a -> /usr/lib/libhandle.a
/lib/libhandle.la -> /usr/lib/libhandle.la
/usr/lib/libhandle.so -> /lib/libhandle.so

Also, policy forbids to thip the .la files at all for normal libraries.

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From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
To: 766811-close@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#766811: fixed in xfsprogs 4.9.0+nmu1
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 19:51:28 +0000
Message-ID: <E1coxuK-000ALN-Uw@fasolo.debian.org>

Source: xfsprogs
Source-Version: 4.9.0+nmu1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xfsprogs, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 766811@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> (supplier of updated xfsprogs package)

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From: Stevie Trujillo <stevie.trujillo@gmail.com>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: xfslibs-dev won't install in Docker image (where /lib -> /usr/lib)
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 15:37:16 +0000
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Package: xfslibs-dev
Version: 4.9.0
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I was trying to rebuild qemu, which somehow pulls into xfslibs-dev.  To
avoid cluttering my system I tried to build qemu inside Docker, with the
debian:stretch image. The installation fails with the error below.
Before (and after) running apt-get there is no libhandle.a in /lib or
/usr/lib.


# apt-get install xfslibs-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  xfslibs-dev
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 58.3 kB of archives.
After this operation, 243 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 xfslibs-dev amd64 4.9.0 [58.3 kB]
Fetched 58.3 kB in 0s (490 kB/s)
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
(Reading database ... 28662 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../xfslibs-dev_4.9.0_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking xfslibs-dev (4.9.0) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/xfslibs-dev_4.9.0_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 unable to install new version of '/lib/libhandle.a': No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/xfslibs-dev_4.9.0_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


On my host system (also running stretch) xfslibs-dev installs fine.  I
tried to figure out what's different between the two environments, and I
found that the Docker image had /lib symlinked to /usr/lib, which my host
system had not.

https://packages.debian.org/stretch/amd64/xfslibs-dev/filelist shows
that the package tries to install both /lib/libhandle.a and
/usr/lib/libhandle.a . I speculate that this might confuse dpkg, but I
don't know how to test if this is the cause.

I tried running apt-get in strace, and found this fragment that I believe confirms my suspicion.
Because /lib -> /usr/lib, /lib/libhandle.a.dpkg-new will be removed by
the rename("/usr/lib/libhandle.a.dpkg-new", "/usr/lib/libhandle.a")
call.

rename("/usr/include/xfs/handle.h.dpkg-new", "/usr/include/xfs/handle.h") = 0
rename("/usr/include/xfs/jdm.h.dpkg-new", "/usr/include/xfs/jdm.h") = 0
rename("/usr/include/xfs/linux.h.dpkg-new", "/usr/include/xfs/linux.h") = 0
rename("/usr/include/xfs/xfs.h.dpkg-new", "/usr/include/xfs/xfs.h") = 0
rename("/usr/include/xfs/xfs_arch.h.dpkg-new", "/usr/include/xfs/xfs_arch.h") = 0
rename("/usr/include/xfs/xfs_da_format.h.dpkg-new", "/usr/include/xfs/xfs_da_format.h") = 0
rename("/usr/include/xfs/xfs_format.h.dpkg-new", "/usr/include/xfs/xfs_format.h") = 0
rename("/usr/include/xfs/xfs_fs.h.dpkg-new", "/usr/include/xfs/xfs_fs.h") = 0
rename("/usr/include/xfs/xfs_log_format.h.dpkg-new", "/usr/include/xfs/xfs_log_format.h") = 0
rename("/usr/include/xfs/xfs_types.h.dpkg-new", "/usr/include/xfs/xfs_types.h") = 0
rename("/usr/include/xfs/xqm.h.dpkg-new", "/usr/include/xfs/xqm.h") = 0
rename("/usr/lib/libhandle.a.dpkg-new", "/usr/lib/libhandle.a") = 0
rename("/usr/lib/libhandle.la.dpkg-new", "/usr/lib/libhandle.la") = 0
rename("/usr/share/doc/xfslibs-dev/changelog.Debian.gz.dpkg-new", "/usr/share/doc/xfslibs-dev/changelog.Debian.gz") = 0
rename("/usr/share/doc/xfslibs-dev/changelog.gz.dpkg-new", "/usr/share/doc/xfslibs-dev/changelog.gz") = 0
rename("/usr/share/doc/xfslibs-dev/copyright.dpkg-new", "/usr/share/doc/xfslibs-dev/copyright") = 0
rename("/usr/share/man/man3/path_to_handle.3.gz.dpkg-new", "/usr/share/man/man3/path_to_handle.3.gz") = 0
rename("/usr/share/man/man3/xfsctl.3.gz.dpkg-new", "/usr/share/man/man3/xfsctl.3.gz") = 0
rename("/lib/libhandle.a.dpkg-new", "/lib/libhandle.a") = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: unable to detect

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From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
To: 766811-close@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#766811: fixed in xfsprogs 4.9.0+nmu1
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 19:51:28 +0000
Message-ID: <E1coxuK-000ALN-Uw@fasolo.debian.org>

Source: xfsprogs
Source-Version: 4.9.0+nmu1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xfsprogs, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 766811@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> (supplier of updated xfsprogs package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: XFS Development Team <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>
Changed-By: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
Description:
 xfslibs-dev - XFS filesystem-specific static libraries and headers
 xfsprogs   - Utilities for managing the XFS filesystem
 xfsprogs-udeb - A stripped-down version of xfsprogs, for debian-installer (udeb)
Closes: 766811
Changes:
 xfsprogs (4.9.0+nmu1) unstable; urgency=medium
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From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: xfslibs-dev:ppc64el Fails to install on multi-arch setup with merged /usr
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:48:35 +0000
Message-ID: <8737edpeu4.fsf@linaro.org>

Package: xfslibs-dev
Severity: normal
Tags: stretch, sid
Usertags: usr, usrmerge, multiarch

Hi,

While trying to build a cross-build environment for QEMU I ran into a
problem installing xfslibs-dev. The docker build looked like this:

  #
  # Docker ppc64el cross-compiler target
  #
  # This docker target builds on the base debian image.
  #
  # Broken in Jessie
  FROM debian:stretch-slim

  # Duplicate deb line as deb-src
  RUN cat /etc/apt/sources.list | sed "s/deb/deb-src/" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

  # Add the foreign architecture we want and install dependencies
  RUN dpkg --add-architecture ppc64el
  RUN apt update && apt dist-upgrade -yy
  RUN apt-get build-dep -yy -a ppc64el qemu
  RUN apt install -yy gcc-multilib-ppc64el binutils-multiarch

  # Specify the cross prefix for this image (see tests/docker/common.rc)
  ENV QEMU_CONFIGURE_OPTS --cross-prefix=ppc64el-linux-gnu-

The error message reported by the build-dep stage was:

  Unpacking xfslibs-dev:ppc64el (4.9.0) ...
  dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-u0zpz1/10-xfslibs-dev_4.9.0_ppc64el.deb (--unpack):
   unable to install new version of '/lib/libhandle.a': No such file or directory
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-u0zpz1/10-xfslibs-dev_4.9.0_ppc64el.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Testing with debian:unstable-slim produced the same result.

After discussion on #debian-bootstrap we reproduced with a simpler setup:

  <helmut> I can reproduce your problem in unstable now. fresh sid
      debootstrap amd64; dpkg --add-architecture ppc64el; apt-get
      update; apt-get install usrmerge; apt-get install
      xfslibs-dev:ppc64el # reproduces

There seems to be debate as to if this is a straight up multi-arch bug
or a user merge bug so I've tagged them as both for now. Certainly
static libraries need to be properly placed in the relevant multi-arch
paths but this seems to work for arm64 and armhf (which I have also set
up QEMU cross build environments for).

---
Alex Bennée

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From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
To: 766811-close@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#766811: fixed in xfsprogs 4.9.0+nmu1
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 19:51:28 +0000
Message-ID: <E1coxuK-000ALN-Uw@fasolo.debian.org>

Source: xfsprogs
Source-Version: 4.9.0+nmu1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xfsprogs, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 766811@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> (supplier of updated xfsprogs package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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