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From: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: libcap_1.10: ERROR: QA Issue with libcap: non -dev package contains symlink .so
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 10:20:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D29FC65.9010608@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1294585014.4036.47.camel@mattotaupa>

On 1/9/2011 6:56 AM, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear OE folks,
>
>
> doing `bitbake -k libcap` with latest master (3d030f) with
> `minimal-uclibc` for `MACHINE = "beagleboard"`
>
>          NOTE: package libcap-1.10-r2: task do_qa_staging: Succeeded
>          ERROR: QA Issue with libcap: non -dev package contains symlink .so: libcap path '/work/armv7a-oe-linux-uclibceabi/libcap-1.10-r2/packages-split/libcap/usr/lib/libcap.so'
>          ERROR: QA Issue with libcap: non -dev package contains symlink .so: libcap path '/work/armv7a-oe-linux-uclibceabi/libcap-1.10-r2/packages-split/libcap/usr/lib/libcap.so'
>          NOTE: package libcap-1.10-r2: task do_package: Succeeded
>
> Is that error reasonable or are library packages not allowed to have
> symlinks [1]?

Usually sylinks are needed for debugging and linking thats why its 
preferred in -dev packages. But you can sort it out by removing the 
below lines and see how the automatic package puts stuff

>
>          FILES_${PN} = "${libdir}"
>          FILES_${PN}-dev = "${includedir}"
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>
> [1] http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/tree/recipes/libcap/libcap_1.10.bb?id=3d030ffa57af27275fbb42eaa0fcd611f4925348
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-09 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-09 14:56 libcap_1.10: ERROR: QA Issue with libcap: non -dev package contains symlink .so Paul Menzel
2011-01-09 18:20 ` Khem Raj [this message]
2011-01-10 11:39   ` [PATCH] libcap, libcap2: use automatic packaging to fix QA errors Paul Menzel
2011-01-10 13:44     ` Rolf Leggewie
2011-01-10 14:45       ` Paul Menzel
2011-01-10 21:11         ` Dirk Opfer
2011-01-10 21:15         ` Dirk Opfer

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