It also adds a call to ldconfig in the F<postinst> and F<postrm> scripts (in
v3 mode and above only) to any packages in which it finds shared libraries.
+In v9 mode and above, packages that support multiarch are detected, and
+a Pre-Dependency on multiarch-support is set in ${misc:Pre-Depends} ;
+you should make sure to put that token into an appropriate place in your
+debian/control file for packages supporting multiarch.
+
=head1 FILES
=over 4
=item B<-m>I<major>, B<--major=>I<major>
-Instead of trying to guess the major number of the library with /postobjdump,
+Instead of trying to guess the major number of the library with objdump,
use the major number specified after the -m parameter. This is much less
useful than it used to be, back in the bad old days when this program
looked at library filenames rather than using objdump.
library. It may be necessary for you to add some version dependancy
information to the shlibs file. If B<-V> is specified with no dependency
information, the current upstream version of the package is plugged into a
-dependency that looks like "I<packagename> B<(=E<gt>> I<packageversion>B<)>". Note that in
+dependency that looks like "I<packagename> B<(E<gt>>= I<packageversion>B<)>". Note that in
debhelper compatibility levels before v4, the Debian part of the package
version number is also included. If B<-V> is specified with parameters, the
parameters can be used to specify the exact dependency information needed
});
my $objdump=cross_command("objdump");
+my $multiarch=dpkg_architecture_value("DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH");
foreach my $package (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) {
next if is_udeb($package);
my %seen;
my $need_ldconfig = 0;
+ my $is_multiarch = 0;
doit("rm", "-f", "$tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs");
while (<FIND>) {
my ($library, $major);
push @lib_files, $_;
+ if (defined $multiarch && $multiarch ne '' && m,/$multiarch/,) {
+ $is_multiarch=1;
+ }
my $ret=`$objdump -p $_`;
if ($ret=~m/\s+SONAME\s+(.+)\.so\.(.+)/) {
# proper soname format
doit("rm", "-f", "$tmp/DEBIAN/symbols");
}
}
+ if ($is_multiarch) {
+ addsubstvar($package, "misc:Pre-Depends", "multiarch-support");
+ }
}
=head1 SEE ALSO