Re: [installer@ftp-master.debian.org: prelink_0.0.20021213-1_i386.changes is NEW]
On Jan 02, Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> wrote:
>> Would it be appropriate to file bugs against packages which fail
>> prelinking? Does anybody understand what's wrong with many gnome
>> libraries (it complains about a undefined weak symbol).
>What's the actual error you see? If it's the warning about having an
About 80 errors like:
prelink: Warning: /usr/lib/libgnome.so.32 has undefined non-weak symbols
>undefined weak reference to <some symbol>, this is usually fairly
>harmless. It just means that the object in question doesn't have
>DT_NEEDED entries for all the libraries it depends on, normally because
>some of these libraries are implicitly included by others and nobody has
>noticed that they are also used directly. libXpm is something of a
>favourite for this.
How can it be fixed? Do you mean that the library needs to be explicitly
linked against other libraries?
>It'd be worth filing bugs for binaries with that problem, but only at
>normal or minor severity.
The problem is that these libraries cannot be prelinked... Being most of
them gnome libraries, this means that no gnome program will benefit from
prelinking.
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ciao,
Marco
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