Bug 362951 – media-plugins/gst-plugins-pango installs libtool files referencing libpng14

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description nobody 2011-04-10 21:10:31 UTC]

media-plugins/gst-plugins-pango (/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstpango.la)


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Mart Raudsepp 2011-04-11 03:23:17 UTC]

Completely irrelevant. Nothing will reference that .la file.

[Comment 2 nobody 2011-04-11 12:43:54 UTC]

re-opening

might still be invalid for a reason, but not invalid for that reason:
that file refer to png14 as a dependency lib.

cat /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstpango.la
# libgstpango.la - a libtool library file
# Generated by ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 2.2.6b Debian-2.2.6b-2
#
# Please DO NOT delete this file!
# It is necessary for linking the library.

# The name that we can dlopen(3).
dlname='libgstpango.so'

# Names of this library.
library_names='libgstpango.so libgstpango.so libgstpango.so'

# The name of the static archive.
old_library=''

# Linker flags that can not go in dependency_libs.
inherited_linker_flags=' -pthread'

# Libraries that this one depends upon.
dependency_libs=' -L/usr/lib -lgstvideo-0.10 -lgstbase-0.10 -lgstcontroller-0.10 -lgstreamer-0.10 -lxml2 -licui18n -licuuc -licudata -lpangocairo-1.0 -lcairo -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lpixman-1 -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lexpat -lpng14 -lxcb-shm -lxcb-render -lXrender -lX11 -lxcb -lXau -lXdmcp -lz -lGL -lEGL -lm -lgthread-2.0 -ldl -lpthread -lglib-2.0 -lrt'

# Names of additional weak libraries provided by this library
weak_library_names=''

# Version information for libgstpango.
current=0
age=0
revision=0

# Is this an already installed library?
installed=yes

# Should we warn about portability when linking against -modules?
shouldnotlink=yes

# Files to dlopen/dlpreopen
dlopen=''
dlpreopen=''

# Directory that this library needs to be installed in:
libdir='/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10'

[Comment 3 Mart Raudsepp 2011-04-11 12:55:55 UTC]

Just to be clear, in case this is a simple misunderstanding - I meant that nothing will reference /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstpango.la, not that it doesn't reference libpng in it.
As such, if you understand what libtool file are and how they work, this is INVALID.

[Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2011-04-11 14:36:29 UTC]

Stéphane, Leio is right with this one.   Other packages propably won't look into the /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/ directory at all, so while the file is redudant and should get removed anyway, it's propably harmless.