Re: Dependancy info for libc12

2002-10-30 Thread Joel Baker
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:25:51PM +1100, matthew green wrote: > >Indeed, some investigations with nm and perl show that basically all of the >core (libc12) libraries depend on libc for some set of their functions. > >The only odd bits are libutil (which depends on libposix for

re: Dependancy info for libc12

2002-10-30 Thread matthew green
Indeed, some investigations with nm and perl show that basically all of the core (libc12) libraries depend on libc for some set of their functions. The only odd bits are libutil (which depends on libposix for chown, easy enough to link) and libc, which has the undefined symbols

re: Dependancy info for libc12

2002-10-29 Thread matthew green
>Suggestions on how to properly figure out which libraries things must link >against (especially involving libraries which may or may not be present, >such as libi386 and libm387 - especially the latter) would be appreciated. > > well, libi386 is linked into applic

Re: Dependancy info for libc12

2002-10-29 Thread Joel Baker
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 01:28:44AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > Really what I'm trying to find is a way to examine a dump of the object, or > maybe trying to build a static version from the .so, and finding out what > symbols are, and are not, declared in the library ('are not' meaning we > need t

Re: Dependancy info for libc12

2002-10-29 Thread Joel Baker
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 07:22:08PM +1100, matthew green wrote: > >Okay. So it's a matter of historical FUBARism - which means I should, at >the very least, have a FIXME to find some way to fix it, and not turn >off the warnings. > >NetBSD arguments aside, this information *s

re: Dependancy info for libc12

2002-10-29 Thread matthew green
Okay. So it's a matter of historical FUBARism - which means I should, at the very least, have a FIXME to find some way to fix it, and not turn off the warnings. NetBSD arguments aside, this information *should* be used on Debian, simply because it becomes very important when

Re: Dependancy info for libc12

2002-10-29 Thread Joel Baker
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 06:05:50PM +1100, matthew green wrote: > >Need someone with more familiarity with NetBSD's intricacies to assist on >this one. Currently, lintian is throwing a spew of a single error (one per >library, in both libc12 and libc12-dbg), based on the fact that Ne

re: Dependancy info for libc12

2002-10-29 Thread matthew green
Need someone with more familiarity with NetBSD's intricacies to assist on this one. Currently, lintian is throwing a spew of a single error (one per library, in both libc12 and libc12-dbg), based on the fact that NetBSD, unlike Linux, does not have every library dependant on libc (a

Dependancy info for libc12

2002-10-29 Thread Joel Baker
Need someone with more familiarity with NetBSD's intricacies to assist on this one. Currently, lintian is throwing a spew of a single error (one per library, in both libc12 and libc12-dbg), based on the fact that NetBSD, unlike Linux, does not have every library dependant on libc (and, in Linux, li