Installation problems

[Alexander Mai]

Last week I have reported about a problem after upgrading to
libtool/CVS.
Now I installed the auto* tools again and it seems things do almost
work now (still get an autoconf error message, but configure
seems to run?!:
autoconf: Undefined macros:
***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_TRY_DLOPEN_SELF
)

Is there some notice in the docs about the installation order?!
At first glance I can't find installation instrunctions in the docs
(.texi) of all packages, but all feature the useless INSTALL file
and some README comments only.

Ok, got the package to link more or less and ran into the next
problem:

libbar depends on libfoo.
libfoo.la in turn contains:

# Libraries that this one depends upon.
dependency_libs=' -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXt' ...

I link libbar against libfoo.la.

Now it turns out that in /usr/X11R6/lib an old version of
libfoo exists. And in the following libbar will be linked against
the old /usr/X11R6/lib/libfoo.so and not the new one.
I tried moving around the compiler/linker flags, but that
didn't solve the problem. Is this is a shortcoming of libtool
or is there a way for me to fix this?

-- 
Alexander Mai
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