On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 06:02:15AM -0400, Gregory S. Stark wrote: > > Branden Robinson <branden.robinson@ibm.net> writes: > > > On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 10:25:57AM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > > > > > > Branden Robinson <branden.robinson@ibm.net> writes: > > > > > > > > W: xext: shlib-without-dependency-information > > > > usr/X11R6/lib/modules/xf86Jstk.so=20 > > > > > > > > I have always gotten this error. I don't know how to fix it, but it > > > > doesn't seem to hurt anyone. > > > > > > Well, this isn't a shared library that's going to be linked to, so > > > there should be a way to override lintian's behavior. > > > > Oh, I get it. The complaint's not about the file itself, but the absence > > of mention in a shlibs file. Okay. Well, yeah, that should be overridden. > > The only thing that uses those modules is the X server. > > Maybe lintian should be modified to only run the shared library checks on > files in the standard directories listed in /etc/ld.so.conf ? Actually, James Troup tells me this means that the .so files in question need to be compiled with the "-lc" option. If Those in the Know could come to a consensus on this, perhaps the lintian error tag and/or info could be rewritten to better explain this error. -- G. Branden Robinson | A committee is a life form with six or Debian GNU/Linux | more legs and no brain. branden.robinson@ibm.net | -- Robert Heinlein cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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