Re: Shared libraries and symlinks

1999-05-10 Thread Richard Braakman
Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 01:34:49PM +0100, BROWN Nick wrote: > > > Currently my problem (we're getting to the question now :-} ) is the > > symlink. I need to provide a symlink libqt.so.1 to the file libqt.so.1.42. > > But this has to be after the shared library file i

Re: Shared libraries and symlinks

1999-05-04 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 01:34:49PM +0100, BROWN Nick wrote: > Currently my problem (we're getting to the question now :-} ) is the > symlink. I need to provide a symlink libqt.so.1 to the file libqt.so.1.42. > But this has to be after the shared library file in the archive. Can anyone > supply

RE: Shared libraries and symlinks

1999-03-18 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, BROWN Nick wrote: > Yes, please, tell me what that file means ?! (Or better still, point me at > the right page of the FM) The diff.gz is the compressed diff required to go from upstream tarball (.orig.tar.gz) to buildable debian tree. To unpack, you do dpkg-source -x <...

Re: Shared libraries and symlinks

1999-03-18 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, BROWN Nick wrote: > Another thing which would be REALLY USEFUL would be if there was a source > archive containing the debian directory. The .orig archive is cool but > doesn't let us build an exact copy of the package. Colour me confused. What about the .diff.gz? Jules /-

Shared libraries and symlinks

1999-03-18 Thread BROWN Nick
I sent this (attached) a couple of days ago and didn't get a reply. Not to worry - I've since found out how to make it work. Maybe I should become a mentor :-) It turns out that the way to build the symlink for a shared library package is more or less this: - in the rules file, in the install s

Shared libraries and symlinks

1999-03-16 Thread BROWN Nick
This is my first post - hope this works... The scenario: I'm trying to install KDE 1.1 on Debian 2.1. The KDE .deb files depend on libqt 1.42. Debian ships 1.40. (Of course, I know _now_ that 1.42 is in unstable, but in the meantime, I've got interested in this problem - and I'd like to use thi