=head1 SYNOPSIS
- dh_makeshlibs [debhelper options] [-mmajor] [-V[dependancies]] [-n]
+ dh_makeshlibs [debhelper options] [-mmajor] [-V[dependancies]] [-n] [-Xitem]
=head1 DESCRIPTION
libraries, and generates a shlibs file for the libraries it finds.
It also adds a call to ldconfig in the postinst and postrm scripts (in
-DH_COMPAT=3 mode and above only).
+DH_COMPAT=3 mode and above only) to any packages which it finds shared
+libraries in.
=head1 OPTIONS
library. It may be necessary for you to add some version dependancy
information to the shlibs file. If -V is specified with no dependancy
information, the current version of the package is plugged into a
-dependancy that looks like "packagename (>= packageversion)". If -V is specified with
-parameters, the parameters can be used to specify the exact dependancy
-information needed (be sure to include the package name).
+dependancy that looks like "packagename (>= packageversion)". If -V is
+specified with parameters, the parameters can be used to specify the exact
+dependancy information needed (be sure to include the package name).
=item B<-n>, B<--noscripts>
Do not modify postinst/postrm scripts.
+=item B<-X>I<item>, B<--exclude=>I<item>
+
+Exclude files that contain "item" anywhere in their filename from
+being treated as shared libraries.
+
=back
=head1 EXAMPLES
doit("rm", "-f", "$tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs");
- open (FIND, "find $tmp -xtype f -name '*.so*' |");
+ # So, we look for files or links to existing files with names that
+ # match "*.so*". Matching *.so.* is not good enough because of
+ # broken crap like db3. And we only look at real files not
+ # symlinks, so we don't accidentually add shlibs data to -dev
+ # packages. This may have a few false positives, which is ok,
+ # because only if we can get a library name and a major number from
+ # objdump is anything actually added.
+ my $exclude='';
+ if (defined($dh{EXCLUDE_FIND}) && $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} ne '') {
+ $exclude="! \\( $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} \\) ";
+ }
+ open (FIND, "find $tmp -type f -name '*.so*' $exclude |");
while (<FIND>) {
- my ($library, $major) =
- `objdump -p $_` =~ m/\s+SONAME\s+(.+)\.so\.(.+)/;
+ my ($library, $major);
+ my $objdump=`objdump -p $_`;
+ if ($objdump=~m/\s+SONAME\s+(.+)\.so\.(.+)/) {
+ # proper soname format
+ $library=$1;
+ $major=$2;
+ }
+ elsif ($objdump=~m/\s+SONAME\s+(.+)-(.+)\.so/) {
+ # idiotic crap soname format
+ $library=$1;
+ $major=$2;
+ }
if (defined($dh{M_PARAMS}) && $dh{M_PARAMS} ne '') {
$major=$dh{M_PARAMS};