Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 08:39:00PVM -0800, Rick Younie wrote: >> .. >> The only problem lintian has with the two function packages is >> 'useless call to ldconfig' after install/remove but regina >> needs this to find the libs so I think these warnings are ok. >> The headline clicker is lintian clean. > > Actually, it's quite right; there is no need to call ldconfig. > Your library is just called /usr/lib/librexxtk.so. Usually your > library should be called librexxtk.so.major.minor, and ldconfig will > make a symlink from that to librexxtk.so.major. > > The problem is that your library has no soname. That's generally > bad. There are other libraries with just .so names that do still > have sonames.. actually, lintian doesn't know that your .so file even > IS a shared library. You need to modify the linking command in the > makefile.
Thanks for checking it out. I saw this in policy 4.3 but thought soname (and a -dev package) weren't necessary in this simple case. I guess the warning in the new maintainer doc to stay away from libraries for your first package is there for a reason :-) I thought that ldconfig had to be run for Regina to find librexxtk without specifying the full path but this isn't the case. I removed the package, rebooted :(, reinstalled w/o ldconfig call -- did a 'strings /etc/ld.so.cache' and no mention of librexxtk now -- and Regina apps find the lib fine with call RxFuncAdd 'TkLoadFuncs','rexxtk','TkLoadFuncs Would it be sufficient to just leave out the ldconfig postinst/postrm now that lintian no longer complains? Or if soname/ldconfig, should I rename the package rexxtk0? Thanks, Rick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://loki.dhs.org/~rick
