Re: gdk-imlib1: possible move of image-loader plugins
>>>>> On Sun, 2 Sep 2001 15:49:57 -0400, "Steve M. Robbins" <steven.robbins@videotron.ca> said:
Steve> Hi, I'm the debian maintainer for imlib1/gdk-imlib1.
Steve> The latter package currently installs
Steve> "/usr/lib/libgdk_imlib1", along with a slew of helper plug-ins
Steve> for loading various image file formats. The plugins are
Steve> currently installed as "/usr/lib/libimlib-xpm.so", etc.
Steve> I am considering a change that would install them into
Steve> /usr/lib/gdk-imlib1. (Imlib2 has done a similar thing, it
Steve> appears) I am writing here to ask whether this would break any
Steve> software.
Steve> The change should not affect any app properly built against
Steve> gdk-imlib: libgdk_imlib.so remains in /usr/lib and it knows
Steve> where to look for the plugins. The only possible breakage
Steve> that comes to mind is if someone mistakenly linked against one
Steve> of the plugin shared objects. If that has happened, I'd like
Steve> to know and correct it before making this change. I'd also
Steve> like to hear if I have overlooked something fundamental.
Steve> I am running the modified debs on my system now, with no
Steve> apparent breakage yet. However, there are a large number of
Steve> packages that depend on gdk-imlib1, so I don't want to make
Steve> this change lightly.
I have a lot of stuff installed. After running
for i in /usr/bin/* /usr/X11R6/bin/* ;
do
FOO=`ldd $i | grep libimlib-` ;
if [ ! -z "$FOO" ] ;
then
echo $i ;
echo $FOO ;
fi ;
done
I don't get anything linked to it. Seems safe to me.
Jim
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