Re: dh_shlibdeps problems

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:14:15PM -0700, Kristis Makris wrote:

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

First, what is this file doing in the package?  If it is not a shared
object, of what use is it when installed?

-- 
 - mdz