Re: dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on.... (they use none of its symbols)
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 1) "It's known not to work on FreeBSD and probably does not work on other
>> non-Linux targets."
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>> 2) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=502083
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>> 3) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=320697
> But Debian is not BSD, it's a GNU/Linux distribution is it not? Also,
No, Debian is not BSD. But we have this http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/:
"Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is a port that consists of GNU userland using the GNU C
library on top of FreeBSD's kernel, coupled with the regular Debian package set."
Now, as you can see at #502083 and #320697 the use of the flag has gotten
problems before.
> I'm not too sure about the whole breaking-on-other-archs issue. I've got
> some packages with the ltmain.sh as needed patch, and -Wl,--as-needed in
> LDFLAGS, and they built on all the target architectures[1].
>
Well, I am not sure either because it is the first time I face this problem.
But, If I've read well in #502083 there says:
"--as-needed is only used on arm and armel builds, while it should
be exactly opposite :( Incidentally it also shows that --as-needed is ok
for arm (but not for armel)."
While in arm it was ok, in armel the use of --as-needed flag didn't work. So,
the use of such a flag could be _problematic_.
> [1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/geanyvc/0.4-0ubuntu1
Well, this package is not into Debian archive yet, there is only an ITP. I know
that Debian supports 12 architectures (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/)
while Ubuntu only supports 6
https://help.ubuntu.com/8.10/installation-guide/i386/hardware-supported.html so
I think your argument about geanyvc does not apply at all for Debian.
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