On 17.Jul.2006 um 07:35:37AM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > severity 378504 wishlist > thanks
OK. > On Sunday 16 July 2006 15:37, Uwe Kappe wrote: > > today I tried to make a googleearth-package. I got several warnings: > > > > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED ./libcomponent.so' not > > recognized dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED ./libfusion.so' not > > recognized dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED ./libgeobase.so' > > not recognized dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED ./libmath.so' > > not recognized dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED > [...] > > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared > > library libtiff (soname 3, path libtiff.so.3, dependency field Depends) > > These are all normal, as the googleearth binary has a bunch of included > shared libraries that can't be handled by dpkg-shlibdeps correctly. They > are harmless however. The best I could do is grep -v them out, but I'm not > sure it's worth it. Hmmm. I thougt the transition to the new libtiff version 4 had something to do with this behaviour. > Maybe adding a "--quiet" mode to the whole make-googleearth-package process > would be helpful, though. > > > After this I get the info "Success!". I can install the package and I can > > start googleearth. But the graphical part looks scrambled. > > If the graphical part looks scrambled, that could have something to do with > your video drivers or something else, but certainly doesn't have to do with > the dpkg warnings. Unfortunately, since it's a proprietary, closed-source > program, there probably won't be anything I can do about bugs in the > program itself. =( Thanks for the information. Now I'll take a lock to my X-Org-configuration. I thought that's OK because 3D applications like ppracer are running... Many thanks and best regards Uwe -- Uwe Kappe Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.maujo.de/ Strasser: Welche Nationalität haben Sie? Rick: Ich bin Trinker. Renault: Und damit ist er Weltbürger! (aus "Casablanca")