How to make .spec Requires for libXXX.so.VER

[Florian Weimer]

On 08/01/2015 09:25 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:

> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249325
> 
> GDB requires some library libXXX.so.3 by dlopen().  Therefore it is not found
> by rpm automatic requires/provides from DT_NEEDED.  Therefore one has to add
> the libXXX.so.3 by specific BuildRequires and Requires to the .spec file.
> 
> libXXX is librpm here but that is just a coincidence, it could be libz for
> example.

Why do you use dlopen for such essential system libraries?  Why not link
to them directly?

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security