Problems using libtool

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

I recently added the .la file to libgmp3-dev, and being totally ignorant
about the ramifications have been responding to various bug reports.

Apparently the .la file must be installed using libtool, but the manpage
is rather incomplete about what happens when you supply --mode=install
option. libtool --help is a bit more help, but what it says isn't what
happens. The implication of the help is that what follows the mode option
is either the word install or cp and that all that follows is passed as
options to that command. Apparently libtool does more than that. When I
try to use it in the rules file I get:

install -m 644 ./.libs/libgmp.a debian/tmp/usr/lib/.
libtool --mode=install \
   install -m 644 ./.libs/libgmp.la `pwd`/debian/tmp/usr/lib/.
install -m 644 ./.libs/.libs/libgmp.so.3.1.1
/home/dwarf/build/libgmp3-3.1.1/debian/tmp/usr/lib/./libgmp.so.3.1.1
install: cannot stat `./.libs/.libs/libgmp.so.3.1.1': No such file or
directory
make: *** [binary] Error 1


The first three lines are directly from my rules file. The remaining lines
result from libtool. I don't know why it's trying to find libgmp.so.3.1.1
but I suspect that it's using the path to libgmp.la and adding the now
unnecessary /.libs to the path.

So, anybody have any idea what is the right way to do this?

All help appreciated.

Waiting is,

Dwarf
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