Re: lintian and statically link binaries

[Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr>]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 01:16:33PM +0200, Oliver Kurth wrote:
> I want to package cpuburn, this is a small collection of assembler
> prgrams to test CPUs (x86 only). lintian gives me these errors:
> 
> oku@robin:~/debian/cpuburn-1.4$ lintian ../cpuburn_1.4-1_i386.deb
> E: cpuburn: statically-linked-binary ./usr/sbin/burnBX
> E: cpuburn: statically-linked-binary ./usr/sbin/burnK6
> E: cpuburn: statically-linked-binary ./usr/sbin/burnK7
> E: cpuburn: statically-linked-binary ./usr/sbin/burnMMX
> E: cpuburn: statically-linked-binary ./usr/sbin/burnP5
> E: cpuburn: statically-linked-binary ./usr/sbin/burnP6
> 
> This statically linked is hardly a problem:
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 oku      oku           612 Jun 12 12:38 burnBX
> 
> Can I just ignore this and write a file to /usr/share/lintian/overrides/ ?

Do you have a reason to link them statically instead of dynamically?

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