On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 06:16:17PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult 
wrote:
> On 02.01.2015 17:08, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > Yes, man dh_fixperms. Shared libraries don't need to and should not be
> > executable. 
> 
> Oh, wasn't aware of that. Just used to that as gcc sets that flag.
> Is it a bug in gcc, or are there platforms where +x is required ?

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/40587/why-are-shared-libraries-executable
reports it as being necessary on HP-UX.  It's indeed not needed on Linux
except for the odd special case, though.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwat...@ubuntu.com]


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