Re: libtool & rpath

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> A package I maintain uses libtool. To remove the rpath stuff, I 
> apply this patch to configure.in. Now lintian tells me that the executables
> have rpath set too! Is there an easy way to fix that?
> 
> Also, because this package (geda) includes a library, debhelper
> is generating an shlibs file for it. But then the package ends up
> depending on itself, because of the shlib:Depends expansion. Is there
> an easy fix for that? Splitting the packages is a possibility, but
> libgeda is of absolutely no use on its own yet, and I don't think there
> is anything for a libgeda-dev.

I have found this in the policy:

4.3 Shared libraries

   Packages involving shared libraries should be split up into several
   binary packages.


This suggests that the split is mandated by policy.

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