Re: ldconfig symlink issue
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Chow Loong Jin wrote:
> On Wednesday 29,July,2009 12:38 AM, Harry Rickards wrote:
>> I apologize for this question, as it's probably easy to answer for
>> someone experienced in packaging libraries.
>>
>> When packaging a shared library, I can't seem to create the symlinks
>> correctly. If I let the Makefile create the symlinks I get
>> ldconfig-symlink-is-not-a-symlink, however if I remove the lines that
>> make the symlinks I get ldconfig-symlink-missing-for-shlib from lintian.
>>
>> Again, I apologize for this being a noob question.
>>
> A library package should contain the following:
> /usr/lib/libfoo.so.X (link) => libfoo.so.X.Y.Z
> /usr/lib/libfoo.so.X.Y.Z (regular file)
>
> A library -dev package should contain the following:
> /usr/lib/libfoo.so (link) => libfoo.so.X.Y.Z
> and optionally:
> /usr/lib/libfoo.a (regular file)
> /usr/lib/libfoo.la (regular file)
>
> If I am not mistaken, ldconfig-symlink-is-not-a-symlink arises from a
> package that contains a file /usr/lib/libfoo.so.X, rather than a
> symlink, as I've shown above, while ldconfig-symlink-missing-from-shlib
> arises from a package that does not contain the /usr/lib/libfoo.so.X
> symlink.
That's what I've got. Symbolic links are created with 'ln -s' right? I
seem to have fixed this myself anyway somehow. I was just playing around
with the Makefile and debian/rules. Thanks for the help anyway.
> You can get more information about a lintian tag by running:
> $ lintian-info -t <lintian tag>
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html is a good
> read, by the way.
>
Thanks for the link.
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Thanks
Harry Rickards <hrickards@l33tmyst.com>
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