Re: Dropping a link reference
Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <leo@alaxarxa.net> writes:
> I'm packaging a non-free software (better not ask, it's a pain :-(). The
> question is that there are some executables that has a link to an old
> version of libraw1394-8.
> The funny thing is that I have tested to create a fictitious
> libraw1394.so.8 library making a symbolic link to the current
> libraw1394.so.11 and it works. When I created the package,
> dpkg-shlibdeps shows some messages with shouldn't be linked with
> libXXX.so.X (it uses none of its symbols). And one of them is
> libraw1394.so.8.
> So, as I have _only_ the binary, there's some way to drop a dependency
> of a library produced by the linker knowing that not use any of its
> symbols?
You need to edit the ELF metadata for the binary and remove the NEEDED
entry for that shared library from the dynamic section. It looks like
patchelf can do that (in the patchelf package):
$ patchelf --remove-needed libraw1394.so.8 /path/to/binary
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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