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Re: lintian: binary-has-unneeded-section



On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:17:23PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> Getting back to the meschach libraries, which I was asking about a little
> while ago, when I run lintian on the built packages, I get the following
> error report: 
> 
> W: meschach-dev: postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig
> W: meschach: binary-has-unneeded-section ./usr/lib/libmeschach.so.1.2 .note
> W: meschach: binary-has-unneeded-section ./usr/lib/libmeschach.so.1.2 .comment
> 
> 
> I got no idea whatsoever what the second two messages mean.  I'm compiling
> the library with flags -fPIC to get a shared library.  What's all this about
> uneeded sections, notes and comments?
> 
sorry, i cannot help you, anyway have you tried lintian -i? it is a little more
verbose about its outputs.

cheers

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