On 01/02/2015 at 10:52 AM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > Hi folks, > > > I'm just packaging some library to various deb distros using pbuilder > + git-buildpackage. > > Unfortunately, the .so's loose the +x flag in the package (while > usual 'make install' is okay) - it seems that some of the dh stuff > drops that flag :(
Are .so files really supposed to have +x? On my system, the only *.so files under /lib*/ /usr/lib*/ /usr/local/lib*/ which appear to have any executable bit set are ld.so, libpthread, libc, and the many .so files from my locally-built (and not dpkg-installed) copy of Wine. That leads me to suspect that it's intentional that .so files are not marked executable in Debian. According to the Debian Policy Manual section 8.1 [1], "Shared libraries should not be installed executable, since the dynamic linker does not require this and trying to execute a shared library usually results in a core dump.". Also, there appears to be a lintian tag warning against doing this [2], which states that "Shared libraries should be mode 0644.". Is there a particular reason why these library files need to be executable in this particular case? [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#s-sharedlibs-runtime [2] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/shlib-with-executable-bit.html -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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