dh_shlibdeps problems

[Kristis Makris <devcore@freeuk.com>]

Hello all, 

I've been having problems with a dpkg-buildpackage process stopping with
the following error message: 

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[snip] 
dh_shlibdeps 
dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: ldd on `debian/tmp/2.4/packages/xmc/driver.o'
gave error exit status 1 
dh_shlibdeps: command returned error code 
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 
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Here's what the file command reveals: 

$ file debian/tmp/2.4/packages/xmc/driver.o 
debian/tmp/2.4/packages/xmc/driver.o: ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, Intel
80386, version 1, not stripped 

and there's no output if ldd is manually run: 

$ ldd debian/tmp/2.4/packages/xmc/driver.o 
$ 

Is this behavior normal?  What can I do as a remedy? 

I can add a --exclude=debian/tmp/usr/lib/xsb/packages/xmc/driver.o to
dh_shlibdeps, but would that be the right approach?


Thanks, 
-Kristis