> 1) It allows for cross compilation (without the dpkg-shlibdeps > replacement in dpkg-cross) What Wichert wants is basically the objdump-based variant in dpkg-cross. It does nothing else than he plans to do. Aehm, wait, one change is needed: dpkg-cross' shlibdeps current expects all libraries to reside in a single directory (which is the case for cross compiling). This has to be adapted. Roman