Re: help: disabling relinking stupidity in libtool

[Ari Pollak <ari@debian.org>]

I do have the appropriate -l and -L syntax after dh_shlibdeps, but that 
only helps with otherwise missing dependencies on the current library 
package, not dependencies on an older version of that package. With the 
files linked according to how I described before, the binary package 
ends up depending on both libgimp1.3 >= 1.3.14 as well as >= 1.3.15, and 
libgimp1.3 not only depends on itself (bad), but >= 1.3.14 (the old 
version installed on the system)
As for how I know something is relinked on installation:
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/gimp1.3-1.3.15/libgimp'
/bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs /usr/lib
 /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c  libgimp-1.3.la 
/usr/lib/libgimp-1.3.la
libtool: install: warning: relinking `libgimp-1.3.la'

And this is commonly known behavior for libtool, since it's _supposed_ 
to fix problems on other platforms, but ends up not really fixing much 
and making it very difficult to package many libraries.

Andreas Metzler wrote:
>  <Silly question>
> Are you sure that something is relinked on installation, this
> ldd-output alone does not justify this assumption - of course ldd has
> no idea that it should search in debian/libgimp1.3/usr/lib/, it will
> always use the standard searchpatch.
>
> /This/ problem can be solved by using the '-l...' option for
> dpkg-shlibdeps (or dh_shlibdeps)
> </Silly question>
>              cu andreas