I have a similar problem with the proposed package pveclib. I my case I
have a data only libraries. I can eliminate the rpmlint error by forcing a
link to -lc But I am not sure the the appropriate solution.

see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1725924


>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com>
> To: "Miro Hrončok" <mhron...@redhat.com>
> Cc: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org, Marcel Plch <mp...@redhat.com>
> Bcc:
> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 15:25:27 +0200
> Subject: Re: rpmlint: shared-lib-without-dependency-information (parts of
> Python stdlib)
> * Miro Hrončok:
>
> > On 05. 02. 19 19:04, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> >> I've just spotted these when working on Python 3.8.0a1. This happens
> >> on 3.7 as well since GCC 9:
> >>
> >> python3-debug.x86_64: E: library-not-linked-against-libc
> >> /usr/lib64/python3.7/lib-dynload/_
> contextvars.cpython-37dm-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
> >> python3-debug.x86_64: E: library-not-linked-against-libc
> >> /usr/lib64/python3.7/lib-dynload/_
> testimportmultiple.cpython-37dm-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
> >>
> >> python3-libs.x86_64: E: library-not-linked-against-libc
> >> /usr/lib64/python3.7/lib-dynload/_
> contextvars.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
> >> python3-test.x86_64: E: library-not-linked-against-libc
> >> /usr/lib64/python3.7/lib-dynload/_
> testimportmultiple.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
> >>
> >>
> >> (Note that there are plenty of other extension modules that do not
> >> raise this error.)
> >>
> >> This doesn't happen with latest python3 built prior to the gcc update
> to 9.
> >>
> >> $ rpmlint -I library-not-linked-against-libc
> >> library-not-linked-against-libc:
> >>
> >> That isn't helpful either.
> >>
> >> I found a similar Debian thing [1] that says:
> >>
> >>  > It is theoretically possible to have a library which doesn't use any
> symbols
> >>  > from libc...
> >>
> >> Do I care? Should I fix something? I honestly have no idea.
> >>
> >> [1]
> https://lintian.debian.org/tags/library-not-linked-against-libc.html
> >
> >
> > We have new errors on F30+:
> >
> > python38.x86_64: E: shared-lib-without-dependency-information
> > /usr/lib64/python3.8/lib-dynload/_
> contextvars.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
> > python38.x86_64: E: shared-lib-without-dependency-information
> > /usr/lib64/python3.8/lib-dynload/_heapq.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
> > python38.x86_64: E: shared-lib-without-dependency-information
> > /usr/lib64/python3.8/lib-dynload/_
> testimportmultiple.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
> > python38.x86_64: E: shared-lib-without-dependency-information
> > /usr/lib64/python3.8/lib-dynload/_
> testinternalcapi.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
> >
> > rpmlint doesn't give much info:
> > $ rpmlint -I shared-lib-without-dependency-information
> > shared-lib-without-dependency-information:
> >
> >
> > But lintian again explains the issue:
> >
> https://lintian.debian.org/tags/shared-lib-without-dependency-information.html
> >
> > The listed shared library doesn't include information about which
> > other libraries the library was linked against. (When running "ldd
> > foo.so" ldd should report about these other libraries. In your case,
> > ldd just reports "statically linked".)
> >
> > I again think this is OK for Python extension modules.
> > Thoughts?
>
> It depends on the extension module.  For _contextvars, it's okay because
> it does not link against anything (glibc or otherwise).  Global C++
> destructors will not work because of unfulfilled weak reference to
> __cxa_finalize, but you probably do not care about that.
>
> rpmlint really should have a list of symbols from system libraries that
> need linking, otherwise there's always going to be false positives for
> such plugins.  (Although extension modules could link against libpython
> on Fedora because Fedora doesn't use the fat Python interpreter, unlike
> some other distributions.)
>
> Thanks,
> Florian
>
>
>
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