Andreas Moog <am...@ubuntu.com> writes: > On 07/11/2011 10:03 PM, Olaf Dietsche wrote: >> Andreas Moog<am...@ubuntu.com> writes: >> >>> On 07/11/2011 08:17 PM, Olaf Dietsche wrote: >>> >>>>> I didn't look into your package, but still having an empty >>>>> dependency_libs entry is important for multiarch support. According to >>>>> http://release.debian.org/~aba/la/current.txt (which is linked from >>>>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/05/msg01003.html) xmlsec1 is >>>>> OK, so you should really clean this entry in your libgeier.la. >>>> >>>> I don't understand this either. >>>> >>>> If xmlsec1 is ok and libtool copies these dependencies into libgeier.la, >>>> why is it an error for libgeier to include this information, but not for >>>> xmlsec1? >>> >>> If you look at libxmlsec1-dev you will notice that the dependencies_libs >>> entry is empty, as it should be. >> >> $ dpkg -l 'libxmlsec1*' > [...] >> ii libxmlsec1 1.2.14-1+squeeze1 XML security library > > Squeeze? The current version in unstable is 1.2.14-1.2.
Well, my current version is squeeze :-) Anyway, I looked into unstable and patched /usr/lib/libxmlsec1*.la temporarily, which means clearing dependency_libs. Unfortunately, this doesn't help. Libtool (ld) still links libgeier against all the (unnecessary) libs as before. dpkg-shlibdeps warns about and ldd libgeier.so outputs the same list as before. So, clearing dependency_libs alone, doesn't help really, because the additional libs are also introduced through pkg-config. Maybe it would help, if libtool added something like "--as-needed" or similar to the link command line. But I'm neither a libtool nor a ld expert. >>>> If this is a bug for libgeier, libtool shouldn't copy these >>>> dependencies in the first place. >>>> >>>> And if an empty dependency_libs entry is important for multiarch >>>> support, why is it important for libgeier, but not for xmlsec1? >>> >>> It's important for ALL packages to either ship no la-file at all (if no >>> other package references it) OR to have at least an empty >>> dependencies_libs entry in the la-file. libxmlsec1-dev's la-file is >>> empty, libgeier's isn't. >> >> If libxmlsec1-dev's were empty, we wouldn't discuss this matter for >> libgeier. > > See above, in the current unstable version the dependency_libs field > is empty. Is there any dh_fixup_la_file debhelper or is it up to every single maintainer to add some sed fiddling? Regards, Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87r55vfw1q....@rat.lan
