dh_makeshlibs

DH_MAKESHLIBS(1)                   Debhelper                  DH_MAKESHLIBS(1)

NAME
       dh_makeshlibs - automatically create shlibs file and call
       dpkg-gensymbols

SYNOPSIS
       dh_makeshlibs [debhelperoptions] [-mmajor] [-V[dependencies]] [-n]
       [-Xitem] [--params]

DESCRIPTION
       dh_makeshlibs is a debhelper program that automatically scans for
       shared libraries, and generates a shlibs file for the libraries it
       finds.

       It also adds a call to ldconfig in the postinst and postrm scripts (in
       v3 mode and above only) to any packages in which it finds shared
       libraries.

FILES
       debian/package.shlibs
           Installs this file, if present, into the package as DEBIAN/shlibs.
           If omitted, debhelper will generate a shlibs file automatically if
           it detects any libraries.

           Note in compat levels 9 and earlier, this file was installed by
           dh_installdeb(1) rather than dh_makeshlibs.

       debian/package.symbols
       debian/package.symbols.arch
           These symbols files, if present, are passed to dpkg-gensymbols(1)
           to be processed and installed. Use the arch specific names if you
           need to provide different symbols files for different
           architectures.

OPTIONS
       -mmajor, --major=major
           Instead of trying to guess the major number of the library with
           objdump, use the major number specified after the -m parameter.
           This is much less useful than it used to be, back in the bad old
           days when this program looked at library filenames rather than
           using objdump.

       -V, -Vdependencies
       --version-info, --version-info=dependencies
           By default, the shlibs file generated by this program does not make
           packages depend on any particular version of the package containing
           the shared library. It may be necessary for you to add some version
           dependency information to the shlibs file. If -V is specified with
           no dependency information, the current upstream version of the
           package is plugged into a dependency that looks like "packagename
           (>= packageversion)". Note that in debhelper compatibility levels
           before v4, the Debian part of the package version number is also
           included. If -V is specified with parameters, the parameters can be
           used to specify the exact dependency information needed (be sure to
           include the package name).

           Beware of using -V without any parameters; this is a conservative
           setting that always ensures that other packages' shared library
           dependencies are at least as tight as they need to be (unless your
           library is prone to changing ABI without updating the upstream
           version number), so that if the maintainer screws up then they
           won't break. The flip side is that packages might end up with
           dependencies that are too tight and so find it harder to be
           upgraded.

       -n, --noscripts
           Do not add the "ldconfig" trigger even if it seems like the package
           might need it.  The option is called --noscripts for historical
           reasons as dh_makeshlibs would previously generate maintainer
           scripts that called ldconfig.

       -Xitem, --exclude=item
           Exclude files that contain item anywhere in their filename or
           directory from being treated as shared libraries.

       --add-udeb=udeb
           Create an additional line for udebs in the shlibs file and use udeb
           as the package name for udebs to depend on instead of the regular
           library package.

       -- params
           Pass params to dpkg-gensymbols(1).

EXAMPLES
       dh_makeshlibs
           Assuming this is a package named libfoobar1, generates a shlibs
           file that looks something like:
            libfoobar 1 libfoobar1

       dh_makeshlibs -V
           Assuming the current version of the package is 1.1-3, generates a
           shlibs file that looks something like:
            libfoobar 1 libfoobar1 (>= 1.1)

       dh_makeshlibs -V 'libfoobar1 (>= 1.0)'
           Generates a shlibs file that looks something like:
             libfoobar 1 libfoobar1 (>= 1.0)

SEE ALSO
       debhelper(7)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR
       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

9.20160115ubuntu3                 2016-03-31                  DH_MAKESHLIBS(1)