Bug#178002: mklibs: Fail to handle .so files

2003-01-25 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 08:46:00PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I tested the slang frontend by hand, and discovered that slang.so > require libm. Checking /usr/bin/mklibs I discovered this text: > > # HACK: exclude libm, since we don't need it for anything > > I believe this hack must b

Bug#178002: mklibs: Fail to handle .so files

2003-01-24 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
I tested the slang frontend by hand, and discovered that slang.so require libm. Checking /usr/bin/mklibs I discovered this text: # HACK: exclude libm, since we don't need it for anything I believe this hack must be removed to get the slang frontend working. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Bug#178002: mklibs: Fail to handle .so files

2003-01-24 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Here is a recipe for provoking the mklibs bug. This must be done on a Sid installation to find all dependencies (I use a chroot environment): cvs -d :ext:cvs.debian.org:/cvs/debian-boot co debian-installer cd debian-installer/tools/cdebconf/ [patch it to include the slang frontend into the

Bug#178002: mklibs: Fail to handle .so files

2003-01-23 Thread Philip Blundell
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 10:06, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Still need: sys_siglist > 1 symbols, 1 unresolved > I: library reduction pass 2 This is not related to the input being a .so file, but rather to mklibs' inability to handle references to global data symbols. Someone else reported a s

Bug#178002: mklibs: Fail to handle .so files

2003-01-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: mklibs Version: 0.1.8 Severity: important I'm trying to make debian-installer boot floppies with the slang cdebconf frontend. When I run mklibs on a single .so file, the slang or text frontend for cdebconf, it fails in a loop like this: debian-installer/build# mklibs -v -v --ldlib \