Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
I am currently reviewing toped : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208200 In the review process, I checked the binary rpm rebuilt by rpmlint as "rpmlint toped-0.8.1-1.fc6.i386.rpm", and the result was clean. However, once I install toped and try "rpmlint toped", I get lots of "undefined non-weak symbol" complaint like: W: toped undefined-non-weak-symbol /usr/lib/libtpd_common.so.0.0.0 wxEVT_LOG_ERRMESSAGE W: toped undefined-non-weak-symbol /usr/lib/libtpd_common.so.0.0.0 CmdList W: toped undefined-non-weak-symbol /usr/lib/libtpd_common.so.0.0.0 wxEVT_FUNC_BROWSER W: toped undefined-non-weak-symbol /usr/lib/libtpd_DB.so.0.0.0 Properties W: toped undefined-non-weak-symbol /usr/lib/libtpd_DB.so.0.0.0 _ZNK5DBboxmlERK3CTM W: toped undefined-non-weak-symbol /usr/lib/libtpd_DB.so.0.0.0 _ZN8SGBitSetD1Ev W: toped undefined-non-weak-symbol /usr/lib/libtpd_DB.so.0.0.0 _ZN9polycross11segmentlistD1Ev ............................ So my question is: A. why is these complaints suppressed by "rpmlint ***.i386.rpm" ? Is this a default of rpmlint? B. Are these complaints BLOCKERs for approving this package?
A: undefined non weak symbol means the dynamic library was not compiled with all its dependent libraries on the link line. It should be avoided if possible, but is not a blocking problem. These warnings can be difficult to avoid sometimes, especially if it involves a lot of reorganization of the autoconf/automake system, which is difficult to do with patches. It certainly should be reported upstream.
The best way to approach it is to determine where the missing symbols come from. Sometimes, it's really just a missing '-lfoo' on the link line. Also, does it prevent the application from working correctly ? i.e. when it loads the libtpd_* libs, can it always resolve the missing syms ?
B: should not be blockers imo, though there is a cost associated with those warnings: the startup time of the application will be a bit slower as the dynamic linker has to resolve the missing deps at launch time.
Let me know if you need more help, I'll try to take some time to look at it. -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
