Ben Gertzfield wrote: > > >>>>> "Ionutz" == Ionutz Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Adam> This whole thread is absurd since the question was about > Adam> someone running ldconfig in debian/rules, which is a big > Adam> nasty no-no as well, and I can't think of a possible reason > Adam> why it would be necessary. > > Ionutz> The ldconfig was run by the "make install" of the original > Ionutz> source package. To make the links to the library. > > Ionutz> ldconfig $(LIBS) > > This is wrong. > > You should make the links yourself in debian/rules, since the make > install is running ldconfig. > > So, copy the libblah.so.1.2.3 in debian/rules to debian/tmp/usr/lib/ > then ln -s libblah.so.1.2.3 debian/tmp/usr/lib/libblah.so.1 . > > Then, in the libblah-dev target of debian/rules, you should > ln -s libblah.so.1.2.3 debian/libblah-dev/usr/lib/libblah.so . > OK. I have been finally enlighted. The ldconfig was there as the final step of the installation proces. Like our ldconfig from postinst is. It shouldn't be called at all, indeed. I will correct this, as maybe this is doing me some other problems with dh_shlibdeps. I don't know yet, didn't have time to try it, but it's a big possibility now that I have understood what I was doing. Please excuse me for my slowness in understanding this new stuff.
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