On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 12:53:40AM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > Package: libc6 > Version: 2.3.2.ds1-11 > Severity: serious > > policy 10.5 says: "[...] symbolic links pointing from one top-level > directory into another should be absolute." > > This allows me to have /usr being a symlink to a non-top-level dir, and > having libm.so using a relative symlink breaks. This in turn causes gcc to > pick libm.a since it can't open libm.so, and since libm.a requires libc.a as > opposed to libc.so, I cannot link any program against libm.
For anyone else as confused by this message as I was: the "relative" in the subject line should be "absolute". -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer