Re: libtool doesn't allow "make DESTDIR=`pwd`/foo install" anymore.

[Paul E Johnson]

I thought I had posted to the list earlier, but must have sent this to a 
specific person.

This libtool issue is a known and fixed problem in libtool cvs.  I built 
rpms of that snapshot of libtool and I've tested it and it does work. 
If you want to try the RPMS, I stashed them in here
http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/software

I do now know what patch is required to make libtool-1.4.2 work as it is 
currently released, I've been asking about. My understanding is that the 
Debian packager of libtool has a patch which fixes the problem.

I have tried taking the patch which was applied in cvs and applying it 
to libtool-1-4.2, but that caused segfaults when running programs that 
use libtool, so for the moment I'm running the libtool cvs snapshot from
2001-11-21.

http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/software/libtool-20011121-1pj.i386.rpm

I have no idea if this edition introduces new bugs or not, I wish I 
could run a minimally modified 1.4.2

Martin Norbäck wrote:

> tis 2001-11-27 klockan 15.54 skrev Rob Browning:
>
> > If you build a package with --prefix=/usr and that package has
> > interdependencies among it's shared libraries (like guile and
> > heimdal), libtool will no longer allow you to install to a temporary
> > directory via
> >
> >  make DESTDIR=`pwd`/foo install
> >
> > libtool 1.4 allowed this, but as of at least 1.4.2, it doesn't.  This
> > makes it very difficult, if not impossible to package programs using
> > libtool for systems like debian that require creating a local install
> > from which the package is generated.
>
> We have this problem with our package ogle as well. Libtool 1.4 allowed
> this, but didn't do it correctly. I haven't tried libtool 1.4.2 yet.
>
> See my mail to this list:
> http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/libtool/2001-October/005646.html
>
>
> > See http://bugs.debian.org/libtool, bugs 57087 and 98342.
>
> This seems to be the problem we have too.
>
>
> > I also wanted to see if anyone had suggestions for a fix, even a
> > temporary one.  There's a patch in the debian package that seems to
> > fix the problem for some people, but still doesn't work for other
> > package like guile and heimdal.
>
> No, I have not found a solution to this problem. Our current approach
> when building RPMS is to build the package twice, the second time with
> the package partially installed. Not very good.
>
> Regards,
>
>         Martin



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