Re: Documentation of lib$package.a?

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Reuben,

On 31 Jan 2013, at 00:37, Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:

On 30 January 2013 17:10, Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:

Are you using the bootstrap script from gnulib (which I didn't check)

Yes.

Then,  may I humbly suggest you switch to my bootstrap rewrite, which

has behaviour the two of us at least are considerably more familiar with?

Similarly there is no code in bootstrap rewrite to override the default setting of --lib, save setting gnulib_name=lib$package in bootstrap.conf. Bootstrap rewrite is extremely configurable, so maybe you are overwriting setting gnulib_name somehow from bootstrap.conf?

Nope, it's the default, commit a1c6bc99 by Jim Meyering back in 2007:

gnulib_name=lib$package

That seems entirely wrong to me.  If I have a package, say GNU m4, then

libm4 is a library built and installed by my package. Why on earth would I

want gnulib to stomp all over my namespace?  At least there is a straight

forward work around:  In your gnulib bootstrap using package, always set:

  gnulib_name=libgnu

(in build_aux/bootstrap).

Quickly testing latest gnulib-tool, it already shows a reminder to set _LDADD  or _LDFLAGS appropriately. It seems your environment is not working properly.

It does tell me to set those variables for example for LIBINTL, and for other variables that gnulib modules may set, like LIB_PTY, but it doesn't mention the gnulib library, libfoo.a (where $PACKAGE=foo).

Agreed, I missed that, sorry.  It seems like a simple oversight though, and

I'm sure a patch would be welcome.  Adding something along the lines of

the following after line 5500 or so of gnulib-tool should do the trick:

  echo

  echo "You will need to ensure any libraries or programs that may use entry points"

  echo "from $libname.$libext are linked against it correctly by adding $libname.$libext"

  echo "to <program>_LDADD or <library>_a_LDFLAGS or <library>_la_LDFLAGS as"

  echo "appropriate."

Cheers,

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Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)