Re: ldd, dpkg-shlibdeps and libsocks.so
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 11:46:15PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
>
> I am the maintainer of suck, which links against libsocks. However,
> it seems like there is something strange going on when it comes to
> linking:
>
> $ldd `which suck`
> libsocks.so => /usr/lib/libsocks.so (0x4001f000)
> libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x4002d000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40043000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
> $
>
> Here, suck is linked against libsocks.so, without a version number.
> This makes dpkg-shlibdeps complain about 'format of libsocks.so not
> recognized'. (Which really is 'format of file name "libsocks.so" not
> recognized'). Why does this happen, and is this a bug in suck,
> dpkg-shlibdeps or libsocks4?
It is a bug in libsocks4, which should compile the library with -soname
libsocks.so.4. I'm willing to bet that libsocks.so is created by
ldconfig when libsocks4 is installed, else it wouldn't even work without
the -dev package installed.
Ben
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