Re: subdir builds & $objdir/$output_objdir

[Peter O'Gorman]

Gary V. Vaughan wrote:


> Once the new tests I added to HEAD are working, we should port the fixes
> to branch-2-0... either for 2.0 if we are fast enough, or 2.1 if not. 
> (Peter, they still fail for me btw, even after your patch).

That's because you aren't doing "make install" before "make check". The 
tests use the just built libtoolize to copy the required files into the test 
directory. The just built libtoolize copies the *installed* copies of these 
files. I believe that I whined about this on the list already :)


> >  Currently, the rules for a number of compilers/systems use $objdir or 
> > $output_objdir as part of the rule.  This causes build failure since 
> > $objdir and $output_objdir are just ".libs" and the .libs subdirectory 
> > does not exist.
> >
> > For example, under Digital Unix (OSF), this fragment is generated (and 
> > fails):
> >
> >   -update_registry .libs/so_locations -o 
> > Magick++/lib/.libs/libGraphicsMagick++.so.2.0.0
> >
> > This is due to use of
> >
> >   -update_registry \${objdir}/so_locations -o \$lib
> >
> > in the archive_expsym_cmds rule.
> >
> > The failure under IRIX is similar except that $output_objdir is used 
> > to refer to the .libs sub-directory (with similar results).

Ah, I understand the issue better now. Thanks Bob.

Peter
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