Julian Foad <julianf...@btopenworld.com> writes: > Any ideas how to fix the build system to not get confused by older > installed libraries existing at the path where it is configured to > install to?
It's an old bug, and hard to solve on all the platforms libtool supports. Does Ubuntu use Debian's patch for reducing libtool dependencies? If so then using a pristine upstream libtool might work. There is some history here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=291641 and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=320698 My own technique is to configure with --prefix to a non-existant location for my day-to-day development. When I decide to install a particular revision I reconfigure and rebuild with a proper prefix, moving the old libraries out of prefix/lib if necessary. -- Philip
