Re: Changes in handling library dependencies
On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 03:56:15PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
>
> In woody dpkg will use a different method to determine on which
> libraries a package should depend. Until now dpkg-shlibdeps has
> used the output of ldd to determine which libraries are needed.
> This will be changed to using objdump. This however changes
> will need a couple of changes in the way that packages are build.
I second this change. Also note that Wichert missed two other plusses that come
from using this:
1) It allows for cross compilation (without the dpkg-shlibdeps replacement in
dpkg-cross)
2) It allows for multiple binary types such as the current sparc/sparc64
coexistence planned (and soon for ia32/ia64 when that port becomes available).
Ben
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