From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:39:01 +0000 (-0000)
Subject: Add a note about dlopen and libtool archives in the LinkageMap.findConsumers()
X-Git-Tag: v2.2_rc31~32
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1962e7117d239c69fb355708c8ff860af337aaae;p=portage.git

Add a note about dlopen and libtool archives in the LinkageMap.findConsumers()
docstring.

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=13334
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diff --git a/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py b/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py
index 833ba3102..c1a3c79a5 100644
--- a/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py
+++ b/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py
@@ -642,6 +642,11 @@ class LinkageMap(object):
 		fail to preserve binutils libs that are needed by these unrecognized
 		consumers.
 
+		Note that library consumption via dlopen (common for kde plugins) is
+		currently undetected. However, it is possible to use the
+		corresponding libtool archive (*.la) files to detect such consumers
+		(revdep-rebuild is able to detect them).
+
 		@param obj: absolute path to an object or a key from _obj_properties
 		@type obj: string (example: '/usr/bin/bar') or _ObjectKey
 		@rtype: set of strings (example: set(['/bin/foo', '/usr/bin/bar']))