Review nautilus-open-terminal was Re: No more right click terminal

Michael Schwendt bugs.michael at gmx.net
Sat Jul 16 14:51:49 UTC 2005


On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 10:00:17 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:

> > I ran over the review guidelines list and I only see on problem.
> > 
> > Doesn't this file count as a shared object?
> > /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-1.0/libnautilus-open-terminal.so
> > 
> > If so you need a post and postun   sections like:
> > 
> > %post -p /sbin/ldconfig
> > 
> > %postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
> 
> I asked Paul Nasrat about this -- offlist, for which I apologize -- and
> he replied thusly:
> 
>   "I don't think we need /sbin/ldconfig, as I assume it gets dlopen'ed
> by nautilus."

That's not the primary reason, however, as dlopen may use the same dynamic
linker cache if no absolute path is specified.
 
> I notice that ldconfig is not configured to even look
> through /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-1.0/, so that's another reason not
> to include it.  

And _that_ is the reason, why running ldconfig would not add any
value in this case.




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