Re: format not recognized
Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 12:41:31AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>> I'm getting this warning when building csound:
>
>> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of 'NEEDED libcsnd.so' not recognized
>
>> What does it mean and how can I fix it? man dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't say
>> anything, and I can objdump libcsnd.so without any trouble.
>
>> I tried to read the source and apparently it can't parse the file because
>> it doesn't have a SONAME, but my perl knowledge is very close to zero so
>> I can't be sure (lines 197-210 of dpkg-shlibdeps).
>
> It's not a question of being able to parse the file, it's that
> "libcsnd.so"
> is not a proper name for a shared library. dpkg-shlibdeps is warning you
> about what appears to be a genuine bug in one of the libraries your
> package depends on.
Hm, so I have to introduce a SONAME? I will have to talk with upstream.
>
> (Where is this from? I find no references to libcsnd.so in the Debian
> Contents files.)
>
It's from the new upstream version (5.06) which I'm packaging right now.
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Felipe Sateler
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