Re: libtool--gary--1.0--patch-25

[Charles Wilson]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> Since you seem to be awake and looking at libtool, you might want to 
> take a look at the wrapper shell script generated to execute programs. 
> Under Cygwin & MinGW, there is a bug in that if the user specifies 
> -L/usr/local/bin then the script updates PATH to look for DLLs in 
> /usr/local/bin before looking in the directory with libtool's 
> uninstalled DLLs.  This is a *big* problem if the installation prefix is 
> also /usr/local because then some older DLL is used rather than the one 
> we just built.  Unfortunately, the path decision making comes from the 
> innards of libtool itself so the fix may not be easy to figure out or 
> the fix may break something else.

This seems similar to the problem fixed by Scott Remnant's patch for 
relinking under DESTDIR installs:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2003-10/msg00086.html

Maybe some similar accidental reversal is occurring in the wrapper 
generation?  Dunno, just brainstorming.

--
Chuck