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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] checdeps.rb for getting deps out of elf files
From:       solar <solar () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2005-12-29 17:29:51
Message-ID: 1135877391.30973.25.camel () onyx
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On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 21:52 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote:
> Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 December 2005 17:26, Petteri Räty wrote:
> > 
> >>I just picked some package as an example of the output with
> >>openoffice-bin. My understanding here is that if you link against those
> >>libraries, it will break break binary packages because dependencies
> >>don't say to pull in required libraries. This just means that apr-util
> >>should be fixed.
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > By the way, you might want to check the locations of libraries. Openoffice-bin 
> > does not satisfy the dependency for the db library. It namely is outside the 
> > library search path (and it should be). You might want to use ld.so.conf with 
> > the rpath attribute of the binary to determine which libraries to consider.
> > 
> 
> Working on it with solar. I just put the || in there until I have
> something better. Thinking about libstdc++-v3 having all the
> alternatives is also useful. Developers should know that the one from
> openoffice is not used.

We just added -L to be used with -n in scanelf(pax-utils-0.1.6) to 
search the ld.so.cache. It works in uclibc and glibc environments and 
handles 32/64 bit dupes. We can't verify any of the *BSD's at this time 
however as we no access to one of it's caches. 

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