Hello, On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 04:26:35PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > Looking at the number of shared libraries in Debian which prelink > has revealed to have undefined non-weak symbols (through incorrect > linkage), I think we need an amendment to clarify Debian policy on > such symbols. In a nut-shell, the policy should be that "No shared > library shall contain undefined non-weak symbols unless it is known > such symbols will be provided by the program dlopen'ing said library". > Matching this policy, dh_shlibdeps should be performing a 'ldd -d -r' > on each library in a package and issuing a warning if undefined > symbols are detected. The warning issued by dh_shlibdeps should be > simply that "Additional linkage *may* be required for this shared > library". Do you believe the wording proposed in bug #191369 captures your intent, or is something further needed? I'm not entirely certain how the requirement "undefined non-weak symbols" maps onto the tools I'm familiar with; running 'nm' on a shared library certainly gives a list of undefined symbols, but gives no indication as to whether they're weak. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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