Re: how to fix lintian error: library-not-linked-against-libc

[Ahmad Khalifa <ahmad@khalifa.ws>]

On 27/01/2025 18:24, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Marvin Renich <mrvn@renich.org> writes:
> > * Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> [250126 12:47]:
> > > In theory it would be possible to do better in Lintian by scanning the
> > > symbol table to see if the libc dependency is really unneeded. But
> > > doing that sounds at least a little annoying.
>
> > Annoying to users of lintian or annoying to implement?  How so?
>
> Annoying to implement because I think the implementation would have to
> know what symbols are provided by libc.

To my knowledge objdump will spit out the symbols with (GLIBC_v*)

Having said that, lintian is slow enough as a single thread, I'd vote 
for downgrading the tag to Pedantic, but not deleting it.


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Regards,
Ahmad