On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2007-12-10, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think in both cases it was something like the main binary being > > linked to many utility libraries (because it was easy to link it to > > everything which configure found), and then the plugin calling directly > > into these libs, but not being linked to them. If the main binary > > didn't actually use the libs, these were stripped out, and then the > > dlopening of the plugins would fail. > > These were really issues in the build process, issues which would > > have been caught with -z defs before --as-needed (which is why I'm > > advocating usage of -z defs before --as-needed), but slipped silently > > in the end package and actually hit users. > > Isn't the new dpkg-shlipdeps warning about symbols it can't find ?
Only if the library has a SONAME. This is intended so that perl/python/apache modules do not generate bad warnings: they rely on the binary dlopening them to provide the symbols (and it's okay that way). So the problem might still be missed on some plugins without SONAME. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
