[PlanetCCRMA] libtool dependency in FC3 PlanetCCRMA sound apps needs updating?

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Mon Aug 8 17:20:01 2005


On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 15:49, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 13:54, Ken Dawson / Chia Wu wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have the PlanetCCRMA sound apps installed on two FC3 systems.
> > 
> > It seems that some recent Fedora Core 3 updates included an update to libtool. 
> > As a result, attempts to do a dist-upgrade from the planet results in an error:
> > [MUNCH]
> >      Reading Package Lists... Done
> >      Building Dependency Tree... Done
> >      -bash-3.00# apt-get dist-upgrade
> >      Reading Package Lists... Done
> >      Building Dependency Tree... Done
> >      You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
> >      The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >        libtool: Depends: gcc (= 3.4.3) but 3.4.4-2.fc3 is installed
> >      E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
> > 
> > I did try the suggested 'apt-get install -f', and that uninstalled libtool, 
> > which allowed the dist-upgrade to succeed.  I then did a 'yum install libtool', 
> > which re-installed the new libtool.  The dependency problem then returned.
> > 
> > Is there some version of an apt command which I can run to pinpoint what sound 
> > app has this dependency?  Presumably its dependency check needs to be relaxed a bit.
> 
> The problem is a fairly recent update to the compiler (coming from
> Fedora). The existing libtool package depends explicitly on the old
> compiler, so if you upgrade to the new one libtool dependencies are
> broken, and afaik there is yet no update from Fedora that fixes this.
> Sorry, I have not even had time to check bugzilla to see if this is
> known...

The problem has an entry in RedHat's Bugzilla, see:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=164601

I added a comment to the original bug report...
-- Fernando