=head1 DESCRIPTION
-dh_shlibdeps is a debhelper program that is responsible for calculating
+B<dh_shlibdeps> is a debhelper program that is responsible for calculating
shared library dependencies for packages.
This program is merely a wrapper around L<dpkg-shlibdeps(1)> that calls it
-once for each package listed in the control file, passing it
+once for each package listed in the F<control> file, passing it
a list of ELF executables and shared libraries it has found.
=head1 OPTIONS
=over 4
-=item B<-u>I<params>, B<--dpkg-shlibdeps-params=>I<params>
+=item B<-X>I<item>, B<--exclude=>I<item>
+
+Exclude files that contain F<item> anywhere in their filename from being
+passed to B<dpkg-shlibdeps>. This will make their dependencies be ignored.
+This may be useful in some situations, but use it with caution. This option
+may be used more than once to exclude more than one thing.
=item B<--> I<params>
-Pass "params" to L<dpkg-shlibdeps(1)>.
+Pass I<params> to L<dpkg-shlibdeps(1)>.
-=item B<-X>I<item>, B<--exclude=>I<item>
+=item B<-u>I<params>, B<--dpkg-shlibdeps-params=>I<params>
-Exclude files that contain "item" anywhere in their filename from being
-passed to dpkg-shlibdeps. This will make their dependencies be ignored.
-This may be useful in some situations, but use it with caution. This option
-may be used more than once to exclude more than one thing.
+This is another way to pass I<params> to L<dpkg-shlibdeps(1)>.
+It is deprecated; use B<--> instead.
-=item B<-l>I<directory>[:directory:directory:..]
+=item B<-l>I<directory>[B<:>I<directory> ...]
-With recent versions of dpkg-shlibdeps, this option is generally not
+With recent versions of B<dpkg-shlibdeps>, this option is generally not
needed.
-Before dpkg-shlibdeps is run, LD_LIBRARY_PATH will have added to it the
+Before B<dpkg-shlibdeps> is run, B<LD_LIBRARY_PATH> will have added to it the
specified directory (or directories -- separate with colons). With recent
-versions of dpkg-shlibdeps, this is mostly only useful for packages that
+versions of B<dpkg-shlibdeps>, this is mostly only useful for packages that
build multiple flavors of the same library, or other situations where
the library is installed into a directory not on the regular library search
path.
=item B<-L>I<package>, B<--libpackage=>I<package>
-With recent versions of dpkg-shlibdeps, this option is generally not
+With recent versions of B<dpkg-shlibdeps>, this option is generally not
needed, unless your package builds multiple flavors of the same library.
-It tells dpkg-shlibdeps (via its -S parameter) to look first in the package
+It tells B<dpkg-shlibdeps> (via its B<-S> parameter) to look first in the package
build directory for the specified package, when searching for libraries,
symbol files, and shlibs files.
Suppose that your source package produces libfoo1, libfoo-dev, and
libfoo-bin binary packages. libfoo-bin links against libfoo1, and should
-depend on it. In your rules file, first run dh_makeshlibs, then dh_shlibdeps:
+depend on it. In your rules file, first run B<dh_makeshlibs>, then B<dh_shlibdeps>:
dh_makeshlibs
dh_shlibdeps
This will have the effect of generating automatically a shlibs file for
libfoo1, and using that file and the libfoo1 library in the
-debian/libfoo1/usr/lib directory to calculate shared library dependency
+F<debian/libfoo1/usr/lib> directory to calculate shared library dependency
information.
If a libbar1 package is also produced, that is an alternate build of
-libfoo, and is installed into /usr/lib/bar/, you can make libfoo-bin depend
+libfoo, and is installed into F</usr/lib/bar/>, you can make libfoo-bin depend
on libbar1 as follows:
dh_shlibdeps -Llibbar1 -l/usr/lib/bar
my $tmp=tmpdir($package);
my $ext=pkgext($package);
+ # dpkg-shlibdeps expects this directory to exist
+ if (! -d "$tmp/DEBIAN") {
+ doit("install","-o",0,"-g",0,"-d","$tmp/DEBIAN");
+ }
+
my @filelist;
my $ff;