Re: lintian W: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib

2003-07-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 14:42:48 +0900, Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lintian, however, can't know that this particular library usually is preloaded, not linked to. Hence the override. If its use is going to be something like that, please don't put it in /usr/lib. That's what the lintian

Re: lintian W: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib

2003-07-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 14:42:48 +0900, Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lintian, however, can't know that this particular library usually is preloaded, not linked to. Hence the override. If its use is going to be something like that, please don't put it in /usr/lib. That's what the lintian

Re: lintian W: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib

2003-07-26 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Lintian, however, can't know that this particular library usually is preloaded, not linked to. Hence the override. If its use is going to be something like that, please don't put it in /usr/lib. That's what the lintian warning is about. regards, junichi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: lintian W: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib

2003-07-26 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Lintian, however, can't know that this particular library usually is preloaded, not linked to. Hence the override. If its use is going to be something like that, please don't put it in /usr/lib. That's what the lintian warning is about. Usually. Sometimes you

Re: lintian W: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib

2003-07-26 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Lintian, however, can't know that this particular library usually is preloaded, not linked to. Hence the override. If its use is going to be something like that, please don't put it in /usr/lib. That's what the lintian warning is about. regards, junichi

Re: lintian W: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib

2003-07-26 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Lintian, however, can't know that this particular library usually is preloaded, not linked to. Hence the override. If its use is going to be something like that, please don't put it in /usr/lib. That's what the lintian warning is about. regards, junichi

Re: lintian W: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib

2003-07-26 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Lintian, however, can't know that this particular library usually is preloaded, not linked to. Hence the override. If its use is going to be something like that, please don't put it in /usr/lib. That's what the lintian warning is about. Usually. Sometimes you

Re: lintian W: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib

2003-07-25 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: correct, so it does not belong in /usr/lib, it belongs in /usr/lib/snoopy or some such location. IMHO it doesn't make much sense to create a subdirectory for a single file. Besides, when developing sometimes you _do_ want to link to this shared library. (I've

Re: lintian W: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib

2003-07-25 Thread Colin Watson
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*

Re: lintian W: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib

2003-07-25 Thread Matthias Urlichs
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

Re: lintian W: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib

2003-07-25 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: correct, so it does not belong in /usr/lib, it belongs in /usr/lib/snoopy or some such location. IMHO it doesn't make much sense to create a subdirectory for a single file. Besides, when developing sometimes you _do_ want to link to this shared library. (I've

Re: lintian W: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib

2003-07-25 Thread Colin Watson
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*

Re: lintian W: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib

2003-07-25 Thread Matthias Urlichs
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

lintian W: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib

2003-07-24 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, for one of my packages, later lintian versions emit a Warning saying: W: snoopy: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib lib/snoopy.so Unfortunately, I am not too clueful about binary libraries, sonames and that stuff and do not even understand the lintian --info output. The

Re: lintian W: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib

2003-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 08:26:14PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: for one of my packages, later lintian versions emit a Warning saying: W: snoopy: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib lib/snoopy.so That suggests that it's not a shared library *at all*, even discounting versions

Re: lintian W: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib

2003-07-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 24 July 2003 12:10, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 08:26:14PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: for one of my packages, later lintian versions emit a Warning saying: W: snoopy: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib lib/snoopy.so That suggests that it's not

Re: lintian W: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib

2003-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 08:26:14PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: for one of my packages, later lintian versions emit a Warning saying: W: snoopy: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib lib/snoopy.so That suggests that it's not a shared library *at all*, even discounting versions

Re: lintian W: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib

2003-07-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 24 July 2003 12:10, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 08:26:14PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: for one of my packages, later lintian versions emit a Warning saying: W: snoopy: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib lib/snoopy.so That suggests that it's not