Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Bryan Kadzban wrote: > >>> We can add that to Section 6.64 - Stripping Again. What I've >>> found is that I get a lot of warning messages and sometimes >>> failures when packages try to use the .la files, but just >>> removing them seems to fix things up without causing other >>> problems. >> Hmm, I haven't noticed that. Is this from files that got moved, or >> from something else? (.la files encode their original installation >> directory in the file itself, in libdir, so if they get moved after >> installation, the files need to be edited, otherwise libtool will >> complain. I don't *think* that will cause failures to compile, >> though...) > > I kept getting messages when building various packages about files > that have moved from libtool during linking. It's irritating. I > then deleted the offending .la files and got errors from others about > not finding those .la files I deleted. I cured it by just deleting > all .la files. > > Example: > > libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib64/libxml2.la' seems to be moved > > This is caused by the symlink /usr/lib64 -> /usr/lib
Oh. Have you tried not doing that? ...Sorry, could not resist. :-P This is a full multilib system, which explains why I don't see that. Anything using /usr/lib64 actually needs the 64-bit version of the library, and libtool handles this itself. In this case, I bet that if you had specified --libdir=/usr/lib64 when you configured libxml2, then later packages that do "libtool --mode=link blah -lxml2" would use /usr/lib64/libxml2.la just like they do today, but that would be the canonical path in the file as well, so it wouldn't print a warning. Alternately, I haven't tried this, but it *MIGHT* work to edit the compiler_lib_search_path in your /usr/bin/libtool script (or the ltmain.sh in the various packages? not 100% sure how this all fits together), to look for the files in the same directory they originally got installed in, i.e. /usr/lib.
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