On Jan 02, Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Would it be appropriate to file bugs against packages which fail >> prelinking? Does anybody understand what's wrong with many gnome >> libraries (it complains about a undefined weak symbol). >What's the actual error you see? If it's the warning about having an About 80 errors like:
prelink: Warning: /usr/lib/libgnome.so.32 has undefined non-weak symbols >undefined weak reference to <some symbol>, this is usually fairly >harmless. It just means that the object in question doesn't have >DT_NEEDED entries for all the libraries it depends on, normally because >some of these libraries are implicitly included by others and nobody has >noticed that they are also used directly. libXpm is something of a >favourite for this. How can it be fixed? Do you mean that the library needs to be explicitly linked against other libraries? >It'd be worth filing bugs for binaries with that problem, but only at >normal or minor severity. The problem is that these libraries cannot be prelinked... Being most of them gnome libraries, this means that no gnome program will benefit from prelinking. -- ciao, Marco
