Re: help: disabling relinking stupidity in libtool

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 08:23:52PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
> Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> So anyway, my question is this - is it at all possible to simply get 
> >> libtool not to relink when installing, or else solve the problem some 
> >> other way? The only alternative would be to copy the originally built 
> >> shared libries manually, but that's really ugly.
> >
> > I had the same problem when trying to do a NMU build of libgtop2 on
> > sunday. I was told this was a libtool feature, but not how to resolve
> > this, so i would indeed be very interested in the response.
> 
> No, no, no. nothing to do with what you are complaining with libgtop2.

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 06:30:09PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> Is libtool picking up the OLD (/usr/lib) version of the library, rather
> than the version in DESTDIR, and relinking the application with it (and
> that old version's dependant library)?
> 
> It's a libtool feature[0].
> 
> I have a proposed-fix for this, will throw it your way as soon as I've
> caught up with the recent libtool bugs.
> 
> Scott
> 
> [0] of the "brain dead" definition[1]
> [1] libtool, see "brain dead" (hello Steve :-)

This sound exactly like what i am experiencing and complaining about,
but then, it will be the libgtop2 maintainer's call to solve this, i
hackishly fixed the problem with libgtop2 as nobody seemed to care and
the maintainer was busy, but i wont touch libtool stuff even with a
10feet pole again.

Friendly,

Sven Luther