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libzlibstatic.a included in package causes build failures for CMake and possibly other tools

Description:

The file list of the assimp package includes /usr/lib/libzlibstatic.a, which seems to be a static build of zlib.

In my case, this caused issues building unrelated code with CMake, because CMake's find_package found this library before the official /usr/lib/libz.a. To make it worse, apparently assimp's included zlib library is missing important symbols like "inflate".

A similar bug was raised for the assimp package for FreeBSD: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=274717. In their case, the same issue caused a build failure when building Rust. They ended up removing the file from the assimp package.

To me it seems like the same should happen here. I don't see why a dynamic library package should include a static build of another library in it, unless there is some use for it that I don't know about.

In any case, thanks for maintaining this package!

Additional info:

  • package version(s): 5.3.1-1 (and probably a lot of earlier ones)
  • config and/or log files: n/a
  • link to upstream bug report, if any: not that I know of
Edited by Sander Vocke
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