rpmbuild FAIL while packaging symlinks

Andy Green andy at warmcat.com
Sun Aug 19 09:53:27 UTC 2007


Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> On 19/08/07, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
>> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>>
>>> ./libmylib.so.1 ln -s /usr/lib/libmylib.so.1 libmylib.so The
>>> requirement is /usr/lib directory will have : libmylib.so.x
>>> libmylib.so -> libmylib.so.x
>> Throw out your ln command altogether.  Just place the .so in /usr/lib
>> and run /sbin/ldconfig in %post.  It will make the symlinks according to
>> the library soname.
> 
> That is false advise, however, since you want to create all necessary

"false advice" is a bit hard on something that was accurate and solves
the problem in front of the poster.  I didn't think about link
ownership, but that's less of a problem than no binaries out of your build.

-Andy




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