On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 02:39:53PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > First problem was that it has a 'plugin' for output, that > > is a library, namely libOSS.so.0.9.0. It is kind of awkward, > > because it is supposed to go into /usr/share > > Putting a library in /usr/share is completly and utterly wrong. You'll have > to hack x11amp to put it somewhere reasonable like /usr/lib.
I wouldn't say changing a line in Makefile is hacking :) > > So the building passes somehow. Then comes dpkg-shlibdeps. At first > > it died with some message about not finding dependencies for that > > libOSS thing. Of course, because libx11amp is not installed yet in > > library paths, silly me. Then I put dh_makeshlibs before dh_shlibdeps > > in debian/rules, and it worked, somehow. > > > > But that produced one other error. I installed the resulting .deb, > > to make sure it's okay. It was, so I ran dpkg-buildpackage to do > > everything for me. And it did, more than everything :) From the > > x11amp.shlibs file made by dh_makeshlibs, it concluded that the > > newly built libOSS depends on libx11amp, and libx11amp is in x11amp > > package. And now my Depends: line contains x11amp :( > > Yes, this is a common problem if you build a package with both a shared > library and binaries in it. It's pretty harmless, but ugly, to leave it how > it is. Your other choices are: Leave as it is? That would mean that noone who hasn't got x11amp already installed can install this version. That is really really inconvenient IMHO. > 1. Split out the shared libraries into a proper library package. A good idea > if anything else is likely to use libx11amp. That one crossed my mind, but I doubt it, since probably nothing will use it. > 2. Use a debian/shlibs.local, that makes dpkg-shlibdeps ignore the x11amp > dependancy. I think it'd look something like "libx11amp 1" but I'm not > sure... I'll be happy to grab your package and fiddle with it and figure > out the right thing if no-one else steps forward with a fix. I have libfltk source here, and it has libfltk 0 libfltk0 in that file. I'll try libx11amp 0 x11amp with X11Amp. BTW is this documented somewhere? -- enJoy -*/\*- http://jagor.srce.hr/~jrodin/
