From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Markus Robert Kessler  writes:   
   > On 19 Jan 2026 07:23:39 +1000 Computer Nerd Kev wrote:   
   >> Markus Robert Kessler  wrote:   
   >>> after a 'make install' to some DESTDIR, I took the created 'usr' dir,   
   >>> chown-ed everything to root:root and verified that the rights are   
   >>> correct.   
   >>>   
   >>> Then I created a tar.gz archive out of this 'usr' dir.   
   >>>   
   >>> From this I took alien to convert to rpm:   
   >>> alien --target=`arch` -r gnu-mailutils-3.21.tar.gz   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> All worked, but when trying to install the rpm I get   
   >>>   
   >>> [1040 root@mga9x64-lb1 /tmp]# rpm -i gnu-mailutils-3.21-2.x86_64.rpm   
   >>> error: Failed dependencies:   
   >>>         devel(libgnutls(64bit)) is needed by   
   >>>         gnu-mailutils-3.21-2.x86_64 devel(libgsasl(64bit)) is needed by   
   >>>         gnu-mailutils-3.21-2.x86_64 devel(libltdl(64bit)) is needed by   
   >>>         gnu-mailutils-3.21-2.x86_64 libgsasl.so.7()(64bit) is needed by   
   >>>         gnu-mailutils-3.21-2.x86_64 libgsasl.so.7(LIBGSASL_1.1)(64bit)   
   >>>         is needed by gnu-   
   >>> mailutils-3.21-2.x86_64   
   [...]   
   > Looking at the 'Failed dependencies' message above, this looks as if   
   > the devel packages have to be linked statically, otherwise movemail   
   > and others cannot access them and are asking for them again.  Do you   
   > dispose this to be so?   
      
   I don’t know RPM well but for most packaging systems, if it says you’re   
   missing a dependency then it just means you need to install the package   
   containing that dependency.   
      
   Certainly within Debian the norm is for executables to be dynamically   
   linked and the package containing then to have a dependency on the   
   runtime packages for each shared library. Static executables are rare at   
   best.   
      
   In your case, I thought you were trying to do a local build and install.   
   So I don’t see why RPM is involved at all.   
      
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