Re: lintian: binary-has-unneeded-section
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 01:21:28PM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> 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.
>
Good idea, I didn't know about -i.
Didn't help though, unfortunately. It gives more information about the
ldconfig problem, but I already knew where that came from.
It just the same thing about binary-has-unneeded-section. Strangely, I
don't remember it giving this particular error a few weeks ago when I
started working on the package.
Thanks anyway,
Drew
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