From: joey <joey>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 21:37:28 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: r415:    * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
X-Git-Tag: version_2.0.101~184
X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=eebc4a40e8f8aeebefef2cfeda2731b33d3ff1b0;p=debhelper.git

r415:    * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
     <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
---

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index c55dc52..4d6f213 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
+    <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
+
 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
diff --git a/dh_shlibdeps b/dh_shlibdeps
index 237d92d..a0666b9 100755
--- a/dh_shlibdeps
+++ b/dh_shlibdeps
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #
 # Find dependancies. Simple dpkg-shlibdeps wrapper.
 
+use Cwd;
 use Debian::Debhelper::Dh_Lib;
 init();
 
@@ -30,6 +31,10 @@ foreach $PACKAGE (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) {
 
 	if (@filelist) {
 		if ($dh{L_PARAMS}) {
+			# Force the path absolute.
+			unless ($dh{L_PARAMS}=~m:^/:) {
+				$dh{L_PARAMS}=getcwd()."/$dh{L_PARAMS}";
+			}
 			$ENV{'LD_LIBRARY_PATH'}=$dh{L_PARAMS};
 			verbose_print("LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$dh{L_PARAMS} \\");
 		}
diff --git a/dh_shlibdeps.1 b/dh_shlibdeps.1
index d09967a..14e56b0 100644
--- a/dh_shlibdeps.1
+++ b/dh_shlibdeps.1
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ Before
 is run, LD_LIBRARY_PATH will be set to the specified directory.
 This is useful for multi-binary packages where a library
 is built in one package and another package contains binaries linked
-against said library. Note that the paths used must be absolute or
-dpkg-shlibdeps will become confused.
+against said library. Relative paths will be made absolute for the
+benefit of dpkg-shlibdeps.
 .SH ENVIRONMENT
 See
 .BR debhelper (1)