On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 02:32:32PM +0200, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > 1. Lintian tries to detect if a certain file is a shared library or not. > Currently, this is done by grepping the output of `objdump --headers > --private-headers' for `SONAME'. If SONAME is found, it's a shared > library, otherwise not. > > This works ok in most cases and also has the advantage that shared objects > of, for example, Perl or Python modules are not recognized as shared > libraries (this is intentional, since Perl and Python handle these shared > objects directly--without ld.so, AFAIK). > > However, on some shared libraries this check fails. For example: > > usr/lib/libgdk_imlib.so.1.1 in gdk-imlib1 package > > So, the question is now whether a shared library *must* set SONAME or not. > If it must do so, the gdk-imlib1 package has a bug (and probably others, > too); otherwise Lintian has a bug (in which case it would be good to hear > of a better solution to recognize shared libraries).
I thought the soname together with the major version is used by ld.so to
determine which library it is linked against.
> 2. The question I have is the exact file format of the `shlibs' control
> files. Most packages install shlibs files like this:
> libfoo 1 foo (>= 1.2.3-1)
>
> However, a few packages mention the full path when specifing the shared
> library, like here:
> /usr/lib/fakeroot/libfakeroot 0 libc6
If it's only with the fakeroot package, it's a special case where the
shared library is *not* included in a path provided by /etc/ld.so.conf.
I believe this is intentional (at least for fakeroot it is). Therefore
I believe that this is ok.
Regards,
Joey
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