Bug#268140: libffi.la: wrong libdir setting

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

clone 268140 -1
reassign -1 libtool
thanks

then libtool should be fixed. there is no documented requirement that
the path has to be normalized.

Goswin Brederlow writes:
> Package: libffi3-dev
> Version: 1:3.4.1-7
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Hi,
> 
> libffi.la has the following libdir:
> 
> libdir='/usr/lib/../lib'
> 
> That cuases libtool to add the rpath option when linking against the
> library which in turn prevents shlibs to work (since no package
> contains /usr/lib/../lib/libffi.so) which in turn miscompiles
> e.g. sablevm which in turn causes FTBFS for a lot of java packages.
> 
> MfG
> 	Goswin
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-amd64
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE
> 
> Versions of packages libffi3-dev depends on:
> ii  gcc-3.4-base                3.4.1-7      The GNU Compiler Collection (base 
> ii  libc6-dev                   2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Development Librari
> ii  libffi3                     1:3.4.1-7    Foreign Function Interface library
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 
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