Now that dpkg-dev actually is slightly usable again, trying to work with it instead of working against it is something that could be tried.
In order to find relevant -lfoo’s missing that new dpkg-dev complains about I ended up knitting a small script. I guess I am not the only one having these issues, so I thought I would share.
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$ cat `which find-symbol` #! /bin/sh for i in /usr/lib/*.so* do if objdump -T $i 2>/dev/null | grep \.text | grep -q $1 then echo $i ; objdump -T $i | grep $1 fi done |
Comments welcome. And people wanting to shut up dpkg-shlibdeps in kde are most welcome to speak up and provide patches. A lot of build power is needed – and quite some patience.
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