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
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