On Sunday 26 April 2009 22:16:51 Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Geissert <atom...@gmail.com> writes: > > Given the current pollution of /usr/lib of private libs/plugins it > > would be great if lintian warned about those. > > > > Probably something like the following (without the false positives and > > based on objdump's output): > > > > for f in /usr/lib/*.so.* ; do > > nm -D "$f" | egrep -q '^[a-f0-9]+ [^U] [^_]' || echo "$f is private" > > done > > Could you explain a little more about what that search does? I think > it's trying to warn about any library that contains no public symbols > that don't begin with an underscore, but I'd expect most plugins and > libraries to satisfy that test anyway. >
It was basically that; requiring [^_] because some libs incorrectly export symbols that should not be exported (i.e. private). The assumption is that if no public symbol is exported then it is a plugin. > For example, I ran that check on everything in /usr/lib/sasl2, and none > of those were considered private even though they're all private plugins. Sure, but that search is what I quickly came up with. I'd love to hear other ideas. On my machine it matches /usr/lib/libkaffeine*.so, which should be in some place like /usr/lib/kaffeine/ Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
