Bug#317082: Not just a dpkg bug

[Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:05:43PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 10:14:16PM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> > Comment to myself: The current patch probably breaks dh_shlibdeps
> > -l option because it doesn't honor LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Can someone
> > tell me a package which really needs this option? The ones that
> > I tested so far seem to build equally fine without it...
> 
> This option wasneeded when package builds a binary that uses libraries 
> built from the same source package. In this case, libraries may not be 
> available outside of package build directory; so ldd called from 
> dpkg-shlibdeps won't find them witout LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> 
> Don't yet know how this situation is handled in your patched 
> dpkg-shlibdeps...

Hmm, but dpkg-shlibdeps already tries to take care of this by using
all local shlibs files. Can someone point me to a package that really
misbuilds without -l ? This would really help me to understand the
real problem.

Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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