YAY: "Package 'libcrypto++', required by 'virtual:world', not found"

[dlagg]

I'm trying to install codecrypt with yay (archlinux), the installation throws the following error: Package 'libcrypto++', required by 'virtual:world', not found I can't find this package to install it.

Output here.

[exaexa]

Hello! This seems like archlinux packaging issue; likely the dependency broke or changed (or disappeared) and no one updated the codecrypt packaging metadata. Can you check:

• if libcrypto++ (sometimes called libcryptopp) is installed or at least declared in dependencies
• if it has a working pkg-config file
• if the .pc file points to valid libraries and headers?

[exaexa]

PS. you should be able to get a working codecrypt copy even without cryptopp library (with less algorithms supported though), by passing something like --without-cryptopp to the configure script (see --help).

[exaexa]

@dlagg can you pls confirm/deny if the above config worked? so that we can either fix the thing for good or just close the issue :]

[exaexa]

I assume this has been fixed; if not please reopen. Also please note this might be a yay packaging problem (if libcrypto++ is renamed by distribution, distribution maintainers also need to feed the correct options that describe the change to configure scripts of depending packages).