tag 623484 + moreinfo notfound 623484 2.5.8 quit On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:02:26 -0700 Andre Kostur <akostur@incognito.com> wrote: > Certain packages have libraries that exist in a subdirectory under /usr/lib. Those, according to the FHS, are for plugins which - by definition - are not useful to a cross-build because third party code cannot link directly against plugins. > dpkg-cross fails to detect these as valid libs to include. A specific example This is correct. > is libaxis2c0_1.6.0-1_amd64.deb. I'm trying to repackage this for use on > an i686 machine. This package supplies a set of shared > objects under /usr/lib/axis2/lib. However, running dpkg-cross against this Those directories are for plugins. If those files are actually used when building against that package, this is a bug in the package NOT dpkg-cross. > package results in "package libaxis2c0 doesn't provide any useful files. > Skipping." > > Perhaps dpkg-cross should either be able to find libraries in subdirectories > of /usr/lib, or the user could supply additional paths to look for libs? No. dpkg-cross is correctly ignoring plugins. Please confirm that this is either a bug in the libaxis package or that these files are actually not necessary for the build. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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