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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Subject: bug#30006: bzip2 does not provide libbz2.so
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 13:19:33 +0100
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To: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
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Marius,

On 2018-03-23 13:02, Marius Bakke wrote:
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/compression.scm 
> b/gnu/packages/compression.scm
> index b158feac4..fd111e579 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/compression.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/compression.scm
> @@ -272,6 +272,9 @@ file; as a result, it is often used in conjunction 
> with \"tar\", resulting in
>             (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
>               (let* ((out    (assoc-ref outputs "out"))
>                      (libdir (string-append out "/lib")))
> +               ;; The Make target above does not create "libbz2.so", 
> only
> +               ;; the versioned libs, so we have to create it 
> ourselves.
> +               (symlink "libbz2.so.1.0" "libbz2.so")

How about symlinking to (string-append ... version) directly?
Seems more robust & worked fine when I tried it, I think.™

Kind regards,

T G-R

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