Re: lintian W: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib
Hi, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 07:07:01PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
>> My personal preference is to add a Lintian override, and leave it at
>> that.
>
> But the error says that it isn't a shared library at all, which is
> equally applicable to LD_PRELOADed libraries. The right approach is to
> find out *why* that error's being thrown.
No, it says that the shared object isn't a shlib.
Lintian emits that error because the shared library doesn't have a soname,
which is a real problem for shared libraries that are intended to be
linked to.
Lintian, however, can't know that this particular library usually is
preloaded, not linked to. Hence the override.
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