Writing shlibs for unversioned libraries

2007-12-30 Thread David Paleino
Hi all, I'm packaging the new upstream version of gthumb and, since I'm adopting it, I'm changing a bit the structure of the package to make it cleaner. One thing I've come across is that gthumb install a library, libgthumb.so. Unfortunately, this library is unversioned (objdump -p libgthumb.so |

Re: Writing shlibs for unversioned libraries

2007-12-30 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 11:14:48AM +0100, David Paleino wrote: I don't want to override the lintian warnings: E: gthumb: shlib-missing-in-control-file libgthumb.so for usr/lib/libgthumb.so W: gthumb: unused-shlib-entry-in-control-file libgthumb gthumb W: gthumb:

Re: Writing shlibs for unversioned libraries

2007-12-30 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Sonntag 30 Dezember 2007 schrieb David Paleino: Il giorno Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:48:33 +0100 Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: You could change the build system to make libgthumb.la a convenience library (if it is using libtool), so that gthumb gets linked to it statically and

Re: Writing shlibs for unversioned libraries

2007-12-30 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:15:11 +0100 Hendrik Sattler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Am Sonntag 30 Dezember 2007 schrieb David Paleino: Yes, but I was looking for the cleanest solution (instead of the symlink) ;) So either link statically or use an rpath to point to /usr/lib/gthumb.