[yocto] QA Issue: non -dev/-dbg/-nativesdk package contains symlink .so

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Patrick,

On Tuesday 10 June 2014 10:23:04 Patrick Doyle wrote:
> I started getting the warning mentioned above when I updated to a
> newer release of an open source package (Aravis).  I asked the google
> how I should address that issue, and it was no help, so now I'll ask
> the list :-)
> 
> Any suggestions as to what I should do about this?  The (autotools
> generated) Makefiles do, in fact, generate symlinks.  Do I care?

FYI there's a new section in the work-in-progress manual for 1.7 which 
documents QA warnings including this one:

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.7/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#ref-qa-checks

Let me know if the explanation given there helps / doesn't help.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre