On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 03:38:10PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: > > 1: libtool cannot relink inter-dependent libraries during a staged install. > > > On the topic of 1, cvs libtool can do this with an undocumented command-line > > flag. However, it still prefers the installed location over the staged > > location. So, if you link to -L/.../debian/tmp/usr/lib -lfoo, a libfoo.so in > > /usr/lib is prefered, which can cause subtle problems. > > Could you elaborate on what the subtle problems are, exactly?
If you've broken the ABI and haven't changed the soname, things go wrong. But then, you're fucked anyway. Note that this includes doing various stupid things with versioned symbols. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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