dpkg-shlibdeps on a bo system

[Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu>]

I am encountering difficulties trying to build a package on a Debian
1.3 system.  The build fails in the call to dpkg-shlibdeps because the 
output from ldd contains an unexpected line.  Here's the information
on my ldd program.
 wiener# ldd -v 
 ldd: version 1.8.12 
 wiener# dpkg -S /usr/bin/ldd 
 ldso: /usr/bin/ldd 
 wiener# dpkg -s ldso 
 Package: ldso 
 Essential: yes 
 Status: install ok installed 
 Priority: required 
 Section: base 
 Installed-Size: 374 
 Maintainer: David Engel <david@debian.org> 
 Source: ld.so 
 Version: 1.8.12-1 
 Replaces: libc 
 Provides: libdl1 
 Conffiles: 
  /etc/ld.so.conf bcdcb23c5d5fb460cee2ce315ef7bd32 
 Description: The Linux dynamic linker, library and utilities. 
  The dynamic linker provides the user-level support for loading and 
  linking DLL and ELF shared libraries.  It is required by any program 
  that uses shared libraries, which is just about all of them. 

The shared libraries are being build like
 gcc -O2 -Wall -fpic -I/usr/src/packages/r-base-0.61.1/include   -c line.c
 gcc -O2 -Wall -fpic -I/usr/src/packages/r-base-0.61.1/include   -c smooth.c
 ld -shared -o eda.so line.o smooth.o -ld

When dpkg-shlibdeps is finally called, the build transcript shows
 dh_shlibdeps   # I cobbled up debhelper to work on a 1.3 system
 dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/lib/R/lib\
 rary/mva/libs/mva.so': `        ./debian/tmp/usr/lib/R/library/mva/libs/mva.s\
 o => ./debian/tmp/usr/lib/R/library/mva/libs/mva.so' 
 dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/lib/R/lib\
 rary/eda/libs/eda.so': `        ./debian/tmp/usr/lib/R/library/eda/libs/eda.s\
 o => ./debian/tmp/usr/lib/R/library/eda/libs/eda.so' 
 dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: chown of `debian/substvars.new': No such file or dir\
 ectory 
 make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2 

The problem is that ldd returns two lines - one of which is the name
of the name of the shared object itself.

 wiener# cd /usr/src/packages/r-base-0.61.1/debian/tmp/usr/lib/R/library/eda/ 
 wiener# ldd ./libs/eda.so  
	 ././libs/eda.so => ././libs/eda.so 
	 libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 

Suggestions appreciated.


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