Re: [Gchemutils-main] are the .so files needed at runtime

[Daniel Leidert]

Am Donnerstag, den 19.03.2009, 14:00 +0100 schrieb Julian Sikorski:

> are the .so symlinks, that is:
> /usr/lib64/libgchempaint-0.10.so
> /usr/lib64/libgcpcanvas-0.10.so
> /usr/lib64/libgcu-0.10.so
> needed at runtime? Usually, these are only needed for linker and not
> needed for normal program operation. rpmlint complains about these, and
> from what I have observed, there is no runtime dependency on these
> files. Given that gchemutils is currently not meant to be linked
> against, do you think I could drop them from the rpm package?

You can safely drop them from your package(s). I also don't install them
with the Debian packages (only with the devel-package, which has been
dropped for 0.10).

BTW: I also suggest to drop all the libtool .la files in your
package(s).

Regards, Daniel