On 11/10/2016 11:44 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:
> On 10/11/16 16:41, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
>> I'm packaging up a program that puts plugins into
>>
>>   %{_libdir}/pkg/plugin.so
>>
>> Unfortunately rpmbuild doesn't seem to generate automatic dependencies
>> for these files (they are regular ELF files and I have checked that
>> they contain DT_NEEDED fields).
>>
>> Any ideas on that?  There's a lot of documentation about how to
>> exclude files from automatic dep generation, but I want to include
>> these.
> 
> My guess would be that they're not marked as executable. Shared libraries 
> don't
> really need to be executable but they always have been in Fedora and the
> dependency generator ignores ones which aren't.
> 

It's not just that. Packages that are outside the strict %{_libdir} path aren't
supposed to be automaticatlly generated, since they're assumed to be
package-internal and not exposed to the world.


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