On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 11:46:15PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > I am the maintainer of suck, which links against libsocks. However, > it seems like there is something strange going on when it comes to > linking: > > $ldd `which suck` > libsocks.so => /usr/lib/libsocks.so (0x4001f000) > libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x4002d000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40043000) > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000) > $ > > Here, suck is linked against libsocks.so, without a version number. > This makes dpkg-shlibdeps complain about 'format of libsocks.so not > recognized'. (Which really is 'format of file name "libsocks.so" not > recognized'). Why does this happen, and is this a bug in suck, > dpkg-shlibdeps or libsocks4?
It is a bug in libsocks4, which should compile the library with -soname libsocks.so.4. I'm willing to bet that libsocks.so is created by ldconfig when libsocks4 is installed, else it wouldn't even work without the -dev package installed. Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
