On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 01:21:28PM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:17:23PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > > Getting back to the meschach libraries, which I was asking about a little > > while ago, when I run lintian on the built packages, I get the following > > error report: > > > > W: meschach-dev: postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig > > W: meschach: binary-has-unneeded-section ./usr/lib/libmeschach.so.1.2 .note > > W: meschach: binary-has-unneeded-section ./usr/lib/libmeschach.so.1.2 > > .comment > > > > > > I got no idea whatsoever what the second two messages mean. I'm compiling > > the library with flags -fPIC to get a shared library. What's all this about > > uneeded sections, notes and comments? > > > sorry, i cannot help you, anyway have you tried lintian -i? it is a little > more > verbose about its outputs. >
Good idea, I didn't know about -i. Didn't help though, unfortunately. It gives more information about the ldconfig problem, but I already knew where that came from. It just the same thing about binary-has-unneeded-section. Strangely, I don't remember it giving this particular error a few weeks ago when I started working on the package. Thanks anyway, Drew -- PGP public key available at http://dparsons.webjump.com/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
