On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > When writing and running the shlib check for lintian (cf. my other mail) I > detected some special cases: > > 1. The libc6-dev package installs a funny /usr/lib/libc.so file. Is this > correct or a bug?
It's correct. This is a stub file to convince the linker to do the correct thing with statically including some routines not in the dynamic library. > 2. libc6' shlibs control file reads: > > --cut-here-- > /lib/ld-linux 2 libc6 > ld-linux 2 libc6 > [...] > --cut-here-- > > Thus, the `ld-linux' entry is included twice, and the first has a path > specification. Is this correct? Yes, this makes sure that dpkg-shlibs gets the dependancy correcy. > 3. ld-linux.so.2 seems to be linked against itself! Is this correct? > > $ ldd /lib/libc.so.6 > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00000000) Yes, libc6 should be linked against ld-linux.so.2, ld-linux itself is statically linked. -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
