Re: warnings from openSuSE rpmlint

[Peter O'Gorman]

On 02/11/2011 04:55 AM, Křištof Želechovski wrote:
> libltdl7.x86_64: W: shared-lib-calls-exit /usr/lib64/libltdl.so.7.3.0 
> address@hidden
> This library package calls exit() or _exit(), probably in a non-fork()
> context. Doing so from a library is strongly discouraged - when a library
> function calls exit(), it prevents the calling program from handling the
> error, reporting it to the user, closing files properly, and cleaning up any
> state that the program has. It is preferred for the library to return an
> actual error code and let the calling program decide how to handle the
> situation.

Although lt__alloc.c contains a definition of lt__alloc_die 
(alloc_die_default) which does exit() on memory allocation failures, 
this definition is overridden with one that does not in lt_dlinit.

> libtool.x86_64: W: script-without-shebang /usr/share/libtool/config/ltmain.sh
> This text file has executable bits set or is located in a path dedicated for
> executables, but lacks a shebang and cannot thus be executed.  If the file is
> meant to be an executable script, add the shebang, otherwise remove the
> executable bits or move the file elsewhere.

Yeah, it's not meant to be executed as is, I guess it was easier to 
install it with the same rule as every other file in that dir.

Peter