Re: dh_shlibdeps and non-standard library paths

[Daniel Farina <daniel@heroku.com>]

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Craig Small <csmall@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 03:44:11PM -0700, Daniel Farina wrote:
>> I've been working on trying to hack up the packaging of PostGIS to try
>> and cope better with multiple, simultaneously installed versions.  To
>> that end, I am setting "--prefix=/opt/postgresql-9.3-postgis-2.1" and
>> stuffing most of the supporting libraries it generates in there.
> I hope that's not for the actual packages but for some private package.

Correct; it's mostly because I need multiple versions installed which
the current tooling around those packages makes pretty difficult.

>> dh_shlibdeps \
>> -l/build/buildd/postgresql-9.3-postgis-2.1-src-2.1.0/debian/tmp/opt/postgresql-9.3-postgis-2.1/lib
> Did you try -Lpostgresql-9.3-postgis-2.1
> To me the -L option looks better for this sort of thing than the -l
> hack.
>
> Also on the command line dpkg-shlibdeps -v with the -S flag.

Thank you for these recommendations; I'll do more research with them.