[12804] in athena10
Re: A request for packages to be added to debathena-thirdparty
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan D Reed)
Fri Aug 29 13:58:37 2014
From: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
To: "fletch1@eecs.mit.edu" <fletch1@eecs.mit.edu>
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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:58:22 +0000
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Hi Fletch,
As you noted, most of this is already there, so I’ll address the things that aren’t:
> ia32-libs - At some point this was added to Precise but it looks like only a subset is available under Trusty
This package doesn’t exist anymore. We have created debathena-athena-libraries-ia32 to replace it, and will happily add any :i386 versions of the libraries there, but we really wanted to avoid “just copy what ia32-libs looked like in precise”. Is it easy to get a list of what specific libraries it wants? “ldd” on the binary should be useful.
> libelf1:i386 - This exists under debathena on Trusty but a lot of the CAD tools look for the 32-bit library under /usr/lib32
Can you expand on this? They are dynamic libraries, so I’d hope that the software would just let ld.so do its job. Are they setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH or otherwise doing something weird? While we can put a symlink it, I’m reluctant to do so for a dynamic library without better understanding exactly what’s failing.
> A lot of the CAD tools are also hardwired to look for awk at /bin/awk so I'm requesting that be a link to /etc/alternatives/awk
We can make /bin/awk a symlink to /usr/bin/awk (which in turn is a symlink to /etc/alternatives) on cluster machines, however if you have a contact with the vendor, we’d appreciate it if you could report the issue to them (if you haven’t already) and encourage them to just use ‘awk’ in $PATH, if it exists. I realize there’s little hope of it getting fixed, but we are trying to stick to our policy of not putting in hacks/workarounds unless the bug has been reported.
-Jon
