Description of problem: On my Rawhide x86_64 machine, rpmlint complains about unused-direct-shlib-dependency for linux-vdso.so.1 for EVERY library. For example: $ rpmlint libpng libpng.x86_64: W: unused-direct-shlib-dependency /usr/lib64/libpng12.so.0.46.0 linux-vdso.so.1 libpng.x86_64: W: unused-direct-shlib-dependency /usr/lib64/libpng.so.3.46.0 linux-vdso.so.1 1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 2 warnings. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpmlint-1.3-1.fc16.noarch How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run rpmlint on any package that contains a shared library in %{_libdir}. 2. 3. Actual results: Rpmlint complains about an unused direct shared library dependency on linux-vdso.so.1. Expected results: Rpmlint should not complain about this particular shared object, since it is a "magic" shared object used to make fast system calls. Additional info:
Adding this to rpmlint's config files somewhere (see FILES in rpmlint man page) gets rid of it: addFilter("unused-direct-shlib-dependency .*linux-vdso\.so\.1") However I'm wondering if this becoming an _unused_ direct dependency in Rawhide is intentional, or if it's a bug somewhere. The dependency has been around pretty much always and everywhere, but only now it has apparently become unused (see the ldd -r -u output for affected libraries). Thoughts?
Hmmm, I don't see linux-vdso.so.1 listed as DT_NEEDED in the affected shared libraries, either on Fedora 15 or on Rawhide. If I'm reading the code in elf/rtld.c correctly, that flag should be on for a dependency to be considered as unused. Maybe this bug should be reassigned to glibc.
I'm also seeing: plplot-ada.i686: W: unused-direct-shlib-dependency /usr/lib/libplplotadad.so.0.0.0 linux-gate.so.1 on F16.
Filed bug 758888 against glibc for linux-gate. Its behavior definitely changed between F15 and F16.
*** Bug 784447 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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(See bug 758888 and https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13706)