Re: game with small library
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:51:45PM +0200, thomas wrote:
> I'm trying to package a game (http://taxipilot.sf.net), that comes with a
> really small shared library. The only reason this library exists, is that the
> provided functionality has to run inside the sound-server. Likely, it will
> never be used by any other package.
> Now, when I try to package the game as "single binary", everything seems to
> work fine (i.e. the lib gets installed, too), but lintian complains:
>
> W: taxipilot: non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink usr/lib/libEXT_wavpo.so.0.0.0
> usr/lib/libEXT_wavpo.so
> E: taxipilot: no-shlibs-control-file usr/lib/libEXT_wavpo.so.0.0.0
>
> Could anybody point me in the right direction? (Please CC me)
If the shared library is internal to the package, it should not be installed
in the system library path (e.g., /usr/lib). Instead, install it under
/usr/lib/<package>. You will need to use a wrapper script to add
/usr/lib/<package> to LD_LIBRARY_PATH wehn running the program.
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- mdz
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