On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 13:39 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com> writes: > > > On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 02:48 -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > > >> then libtool should be fixed. there is no documented requirement that > >> the path has to be normalized. > >> > > While there's no specifically documented requirement, there is a common > > sense one. Libtool doesn't make any attempt to normalise the paths > > given to it, in fact it's kinda a tricky issue ... for example: > > > > If you used -rpath /usr/mylib and that was a symlink to /usr/lib, would > > you expect that to be RPATHd or not? > > /usr/mylib is normalized while not being canonical on your system. > > I would expect . and .. to get removed while links are not removed if > libtool is to do any normalization. > Why? If they were important enough to put in there, they must be useful for something. I actually fixed the dpkg-shlibdeps side of this (being over-sensitive to non-normalised paths) last week: http://arch.netsplit.com/scott@netsplit.com--2004/dpkg--devo--1.10--patch-40 It was needed for AMD64's /usr/lib madness. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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