Bug#268140: libffi.la: wrong libdir setting

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

Scott James Remnant 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?

no that's another issue. independently of symlinks things should be
transformed from /usr/lib/. to /usr/lib, /usr/lib/../lib to /usr/lib

I see these kind of pathes generated by the biarch setups for gcc, but
cannot actually tell, how to avoid them.