Re: lintian: binary-has-unneeded-section

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Drew Parsons wrote:

>...
> 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?

These are sections you can remove when you strip it.

>From dh_strip:

        foreach (@shared_libs) {
                # Note that all calls to strip on shared libs
                # *must* inclde the --strip-unneeded.
                doit("strip","--remove-section=.comment","--remove-section=.note","--strip-unneeded",$_);
        }

        foreach (@executables) {
                doit("strip","--remove-section=.comment","--remove-section=.note",$_);
        }

        foreach (@static_libs) {
                doit("strip","--strip-debug",$_);
        }


That means you should do a

strip --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note --strip-unneeded  debian/tmp/usr/lib/libmeschach.so.1.2

> Drew

cu,
Adrian

PS: Sorry that the lines are too long but I didn't see a good way to break
    them.


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