Re: binary dependencies
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 02:45:33PM -0800, Ian Eure wrote:
> hi there. i have a slight problem... i have a package which depends on
> tcl. problem is that dh_shlibdeps finds tcl8.2 installed, and sticks that
> in the Depends: field. it would be better if it could depend on tclsh,
> which is provided by the (many) different versions of tcl instead of being
> bound to tcl 8.2
You are mistaking what dh_shlibdeps does. Your program links with the
tcl library. It can't simply use just any version of that library. So
you have to have that one installed for your program to work. On the
aside, using tclsh is a dependency you add yourself, but since it is in
the same library package (tcl8.2), you don't need it.
IOW, you are stuck using the version of tcl you compiled against.
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