On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Bruno Haible wrote: > 3) Introduce a libintl-config script that sets outputs the right -L and > -rpath option.
Most packages appear to select this option. Unfortunately it is often worse than useless because it only works in the most simplistic case --- the case where the application only uses that one library. As soon as more than one *-config script is used to obtain -I, -L, and -l options, things blow up since the combination of path options often selects the wrong files, and the libraries may be linked in the wrong order. What is needed is a "database" which acts as a registry of installed packages. This would be updatable by 'make install' as well as binary packaging tools. A tool would be provided to formulate the optimum -I, -L, and -llibs options required to build using a set of libraries. The database would need to be distributable across multiple prefixes in order to handle the case where libraries are provided by the system, installed to a common local directory, and installed in a private directory. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
