Re: lintian question
>>>>> On Sat, 20 Mar 1999 19:46:19 -0500 (EST), Will Lowe <harpo@UDel.Edu> said:
Will> Can anybody tell me what this means, and what to do about it?
Will> W: rosegarden: shared-lib-without-dependency-information
Will> usr/X11R6/lib/rosegarden/petal/Petal.so
Will> E: rosegarden: shlib-with-non-pic-code
Will> usr/X11R6/lib/rosegarden/petal/Petal.so
First one: it means you have a shared library in your package without
providing dependency information about it. In this case it shouldn't
cause a problem because the shared object looks like it'll only be
used by rosegarden.
A little more info: when you link a program and do ldd on it you get
back a list of libraries it loads at startup. If the packages that
provide that library also provides a shlib file automated tools like
dpkg-shlibs can figure out some of the dependency for the package
(with versions).
Second one: shared library objects are compiled in a special way
(command line option -fPIC) so that they can be shared. The object it
is complaining about includes code that can not be shared. This would
be _very_ bad for something like libc, but since this looks like a
single program shared object it shouldn't cause any troubles. The
worst that happens in any case is that each process that uses this lib
gets its own copy (so you can see how bad a thing having libc compiled
this way would be :).
HTH
Dres
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