I thought I had posted to the list earlier, but must have sent this to a specific person.
This libtool issue is a known and fixed problem in libtool cvs. I built rpms of that snapshot of libtool and I've tested it and it does work. If you want to try the RPMS, I stashed them in here http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/software I do now know what patch is required to make libtool-1.4.2 work as it is currently released, I've been asking about. My understanding is that the Debian packager of libtool has a patch which fixes the problem. I have tried taking the patch which was applied in cvs and applying it to libtool-1-4.2, but that caused segfaults when running programs that use libtool, so for the moment I'm running the libtool cvs snapshot from 2001-11-21. http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/software/libtool-20011121-1pj.i386.rpm I have no idea if this edition introduces new bugs or not, I wish I could run a minimally modified 1.4.2 Martin Norbäck wrote: > tis 2001-11-27 klockan 15.54 skrev Rob Browning: > >>If you build a package with --prefix=/usr and that package has >>interdependencies among it's shared libraries (like guile and >>heimdal), libtool will no longer allow you to install to a temporary >>directory via >> >> make DESTDIR=`pwd`/foo install >> >>libtool 1.4 allowed this, but as of at least 1.4.2, it doesn't. This >>makes it very difficult, if not impossible to package programs using >>libtool for systems like debian that require creating a local install >>from which the package is generated. >> > > We have this problem with our package ogle as well. Libtool 1.4 allowed > this, but didn't do it correctly. I haven't tried libtool 1.4.2 yet. > > See my mail to this list: > http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/libtool/2001-October/005646.html > > >>See http://bugs.debian.org/libtool, bugs 57087 and 98342. >> > > This seems to be the problem we have too. > > >>I also wanted to see if anyone had suggestions for a fix, even a >>temporary one. There's a patch in the debian package that seems to >>fix the problem for some people, but still doesn't work for other >>package like guile and heimdal. >> > > No, I have not found a solution to this problem. Our current approach > when building RPMS is to build the package twice, the second time with > the package partially installed. Not very good. > > Regards, > > Martin > > -- Paul E. Johnson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Political Science http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn University of Kansas Office: (785) 864-9086 Lawrence, Kansas 66045 FAX: (785) 864-5700 _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
