DH_SHLIBDEPS(1) Debhelper DH_SHLIBDEPS(1)
NAME
dh_shlibdeps - calculate shared library dependencies
SYNOPSIS
dh_shlibdeps [debhelperoptions] [-Lpackage] [-ldirectory] [-Xitem]
[--params]
DESCRIPTION
dh_shlibdeps is a debhelper program that is responsible for calculating
shared library dependencies for packages.
This program is merely a wrapper around dpkg-shlibdeps(1) that calls it
once for each package listed in the control file, passing it a list of
ELF executables and shared libraries it has found.
OPTIONS
-Xitem, --exclude=item
Exclude files that contain item anywhere in their filename from
being passed to dpkg-shlibdeps. This will make their dependencies
be ignored. This may be useful in some situations, but use it with
caution. This option may be used more than once to exclude more
than one thing.
-- params
Pass params to dpkg-shlibdeps(1).
-uparams, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params=params
This is another way to pass params to dpkg-shlibdeps(1). It is
deprecated; use -- instead.
-ldirectory[:directory ...]
With recent versions of dpkg-shlibdeps, this option is generally
not needed.
It tells dpkg-shlibdeps (via its -l parameter), to look for private
package libraries in the specified directory (or directories --
separate with colons). With recent versions of dpkg-shlibdeps, this
is mostly only useful for packages that build multiple flavors of
the same library, or other situations where the library is
installed into a directory not on the regular library search path.
-Lpackage, --libpackage=package
With recent versions of dpkg-shlibdeps, this option is generally
not needed, unless your package builds multiple flavors of the same
library or is relying on debian/shlibs.local for an internal
library.
It tells dpkg-shlibdeps (via its -S parameter) to look first in the
package build directory for the specified package, when searching
for libraries, symbol files, and shlibs files.
If needed, this can be passed multiple times with different package
names.
EXAMPLES
Suppose that your source package produces libfoo1, libfoo-dev, and
libfoo-bin binary packages. libfoo-bin links against libfoo1, and
should depend on it. In your rules file, first run dh_makeshlibs, then
dh_shlibdeps:
dh_makeshlibs
dh_shlibdeps
This will have the effect of generating automatically a shlibs file for
libfoo1, and using that file and the libfoo1 library in the
debian/libfoo1/usr/lib directory to calculate shared library dependency
information.
If a libbar1 package is also produced, that is an alternate build of
libfoo, and is installed into /usr/lib/bar/, you can make libfoo-bin
depend on libbar1 as follows:
dh_shlibdeps -Llibbar1 -l/usr/lib/bar
SEE ALSO
debhelper(7), dpkg-shlibdeps(1)
This program is a part of debhelper.
AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
13.2 2020-07-05 DH_SHLIBDEPS(1)