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
-V3 mode and above only) to any packages in which it finds shared libraries.
+v3 mode and above only) to any packages in which it finds shared libraries.
-If a L<dpkg-gensymbols(1)> symbol file is found in debian/package.symbols
-(or debian/package.symbols.arch), dpkg-gensymbols will be called
-to process and install the symbols file. Packages using symbols files
-should Build-Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
+=head1 FILES
+
+=over 4
+
+=item debian/I<package>.symbols
+
+=item debian/I<package>.symbols.I<arch>
+
+These symbols files, if present, are passed to L<dpkg-gensymbols(1)> to
+be processed and installed. Use the I<arch> specific names if you need
+to provide different symbols files for different architectures.
+
+=back
=head1 OPTIONS
=cut
-init();
+init(options => {
+ "m=s", => \$dh{M_PARAMS},
+ "major=s" => \$dh{M_PARAMS},
+ "version-info:s" => \$dh{V_FLAG},
+ "add-udeb=s" => \$dh{SHLIBS_UDEB},
+});
foreach my $package (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) {
next if is_udeb($package);
doit("rm", "-f", "$tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs");
# 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
+ # match "*.so.*". 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 $exclude='';
- my @udeb_lines;
+ my (@udeb_lines, @lib_files);
if (defined($dh{EXCLUDE_FIND}) && $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} ne '') {
$exclude="! \\( $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} \\) ";
}
open (FIND, "find $tmp -type f \\( -name '*.so' -or -name '*.so.*' \\) $exclude |");
while (<FIND>) {
my ($library, $major);
+ push @lib_files, $_;
my $objdump=`objdump -p $_`;
if ($objdump=~m/\s+SONAME\s+(.+)\.so\.(.+)/) {
# proper soname format
# dpkg-gensymbols files
my $symbols=pkgfile($package, "symbols");
if (-e $symbols) {
- # This is done rather than using dpkg-gensymbols
+ my @liblist;
+ if (! compat(7)) {
+ @liblist=map { "-e$_" } @lib_files;
+ }
+ # -I is used rather than using dpkg-gensymbols
# own search for symbols files, since that search
# is not 100% compatible with debhelper. (For example,
# this supports --ignore being used.)
- if (! -d "$tmp/DEBIAN") {
- doit("install","-d","$tmp/DEBIAN");
- }
- doit("cp", $symbols, "$tmp/DEBIAN/symbols");
- doit("dpkg-gensymbols", "-p$package", "-O$tmp/DEBIAN/symbols",
- "-P$tmp", @{$dh{U_PARAMS}});
+ doit("dpkg-gensymbols", "-p$package", "-I$symbols",
+ "-P$tmp",
+ @liblist,
+ @{$dh{U_PARAMS}});
if (-s "$tmp/DEBIAN/symbols" == 0) {
doit("rm", "-f", "$tmp/DEBIAN/symbols");
}