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.
