Codelite 12.0 from official repository installs two versions of liblldb

[neildarlow]

Hi,

I'm using Codelite 12.0 installed from the official repository on Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon edition. I noticed that when installing the codelite and wxcrafter packages (tagged unofficial in synaptic) that both liblldb-3.9 and liblldb-6.0 are installed as dependencies.

Is this intentional or a packaging error?

Regards,
Neil Darlow

Linux Mint 19 "Tara" Cinnamon edition amd64
codelite-12.0-1unofficial.bionic
wxcrafter-2.9-1unofficial.bionic

[DavidGH]

Hi,

Is this intentional or a packaging error?

Probably a bit of both. Historically, CodeLite has had problems with lldb: in particular lldb-3.7 made it crash.

The current debian/control file says

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Build-Depends: ... liblldb-3.4-dev | liblldb-3.5-dev | liblldb-3.6-dev | liblldb-3.9-dev
Recommends: ...  lldb (>=3.4)

so liblldb-3.9 isn't surprising. However there's no mention of liblldb-6.0. Maybe it happened to be installed in the 'build' system, and dpkg picked it up by mistake...?

Do you have a runtime conflict?

Regards,

David

[neildarlow]

Hi David,

Thank you for your response and your efforts with Codelite.

I don't appear to have a problem. Does Codelite use lldb in library form? If not, any use of the lldb binary will use the version 6.0 one. There are symlinks for all the lldb-related binaries to the version 6.0 ones.

Regards,
Neil Darlow

[neildarlow]

Hi,

The recommends on lldb is probably what's done it. I have synaptic set to install recommended packages and lldb depends on the latest available version which will pull-in liblldb at the same version.

Regards,
Neil Darlow

[DavidGH]

Does Codelite use lldb in library form?

I don't think so, and nor does ldd. AFAIK it's just a build requirement.

[neildarlow]

Hi David,

Actually, it does.

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neil@dumbledore:~$ ldd /usr/bin/codelite-lldb |grep lldb
	liblldb-3.9.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblldb-3.9.so.1 (0x00007fb351c37000)

Anyway, it's not a big deal and I'm sure you have bigger fish to fry. I'll watch to see if the library version changes if I rebuild Codelite on my system.

I suppose you could evaluate whether the recommends on lldb actually adds any benefit to Codelite - I can't see that it does.

Regards,
Neil

[DavidGH]

Actually, it does

Oops, I was ldding the wrong dir. Sorry.