Undefined non-weak symbol from rpmlint

[Paul Howarth]

Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
> I am currently reviewing toped :
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208200
> 
> In the review process, I checked the binary rpm rebuilt by rpmlint
> as "rpmlint toped-0.8.1-1.fc6.i386.rpm", and the result was clean.
> However, once I install toped and try "rpmlint toped", I get lots
> of "undefined non-weak symbol" complaint like:
> 
> W: toped undefined-non-weak-symbol /usr/lib/libtpd_common.so.0.0.0 wxEVT_LOG_ERRMESSAGE
> W: toped undefined-non-weak-symbol /usr/lib/libtpd_common.so.0.0.0 CmdList
> W: toped undefined-non-weak-symbol /usr/lib/libtpd_common.so.0.0.0 wxEVT_FUNC_BROWSER
> W: toped undefined-non-weak-symbol /usr/lib/libtpd_DB.so.0.0.0 Properties
> W: toped undefined-non-weak-symbol /usr/lib/libtpd_DB.so.0.0.0 _ZNK5DBboxmlERK3CTM
> W: toped undefined-non-weak-symbol /usr/lib/libtpd_DB.so.0.0.0 _ZN8SGBitSetD1Ev
> W: toped undefined-non-weak-symbol /usr/lib/libtpd_DB.so.0.0.0 _ZN9polycross11segmentlistD1Ev
> ............................
> 
> So my question is:
> A. why is these complaints suppressed by "rpmlint ***.i386.rpm" ? Is this a default
>    of rpmlint?

There are some checks that can only be done on installed packages. This 
is one of them. The complaints are not suppressed when you run rpmlint 
against the rpm package file, they are simply not checked for.

You may be able to fix the problems by linking against the libraries 
that provide these symbols.

Paul.