Hi,
>From quite long time in libtool 1.4 series I quite often have problem with relinking. For example I'm trying to create rpm package with subversion and I'm doing: ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --bindir=/usr/bin make make install \ libdir=/tmp/qq/usr/lib \ bindir=/tmp/qq/usr/bin everything compiles fine but while installing: cd subversion/libsvn_subr ; /bin/sh /home/users/misiek/rpm/BUILD/subversion-r1587/libtool --mode=install /home/users/misiek/rpm/BUILD/subversion-r1587/ac-helpers/install-sh -c libsvn_subr.la /home/users/misiek/tmp/subversion-1587-root-misiek/usr/lib/libsvn_subr.la /home/users/misiek/rpm/BUILD/subversion-r1587/ac-helpers/install-sh -c .libs/libsvn_subr.so.0.0.0 /home/users/misiek/tmp/subversion-1587-root-misiek/usr/lib/libsvn_subr.so.0.0.0 (cd /tmp/qq/usr/lib && rm -f libsvn_subr.so.0 && ln -s libsvn_subr.so.0.0.0 libsvn_subr.so.0) (cd /tmp/qq/usr/lib && rm -f libsvn_subr.so && ln -s libsvn_subr.so.0.0.0 libsvn_subr.so) /home/users/misiek/rpm/BUILD/subversion-r1587/ac-helpers/install-sh -c .libs/libsvn_subr.lai /home/users/misiek/tmp/subversion-1587-root-misiek/usr/lib/libsvn_subr.la /home/users/misiek/rpm/BUILD/subversion-r1587/ac-helpers/install-sh -c .libs/libsvn_subr.a /home/users/misiek/tmp/subversion-1587-root-misiek/usr/lib/libsvn_subr.a ranlib /tmp/qq/usr/lib/libsvn_subr.a chmod 644 /tmp/qq/usr/lib/libsvn_subr.a libtool: install: warning: remember to run `libtool --finish /usr/lib' cd subversion/libsvn_ra_dav ; /bin/sh /home/users/misiek/rpm/BUILD/subversion-r1587/libtool --mode=install /home/users/misiek/rpm/BUILD/subversion-r1587/ac-helpers/install-sh -c libsvn_ra_dav.la /home/users/misiek/tmp/subversion-1587-root-misiek/usr/lib/libsvn_ra_dav.la libtool: install: warning: relinking `libsvn_ra_dav.la' ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (cd /home/users/misiek/rpm/BUILD/subversion-r1587/subversion/libsvn_ra_dav; /bin/sh /home/users/misiek/rpm/BUILD/subversion-r1587/libtool --mode=relink i686-pld-linux-gcc -DLINUX=2 -D_REENTRANT -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -O2 -march=athlon -pthread -DNEON_ZLIB -DNEON_SSL -I./subversion/include -I. -I/usr/include/apache -I/home/users/misiek/rpm/BUILD/httpd-2.0.35/srclib/apr-util/include -I/usr/include/neon -I./expat-lite -I/usr/include/db4 -rpath /usr/lib -o libsvn_ra_dav.la commit.lo fetch.lo log.lo merge.lo options.lo props.lo session.lo util.lo ../../subversion/libsvn_subr/libsvn_subr.la /usr/lib/libapr.la -lneon -lz -L/usr/lib -lssl -lcrypto -L/usr/lib -lxml2 -lz -lm -lm -lcrypt -lnsl -ldl) i686-pld-linux-gcc -shared .libs/commit.o .libs/fetch.o .libs/log.o .libs/merge.o .libs/options.o .libs/props.o .libs/session.o .libs/util.o -L/usr/lib -lsvn_subr -lapr -lneon -lssl -lcrypto -lxml2 -lz -lm -lcrypt -lnsl -ldl -Wl,-soname -Wl,libsvn_ra_dav.so.0 -o .libs/libsvn_ra_dav.so.0.0.0 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsvn_subr ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ collect2: ld returned 1 exit status libtool: install: error: relink `libsvn_ra_dav.la' with the above command before installing it libtool: install: warning: remember to run `libtool --finish /usr/lib' libsvn_ra_dav.so should be linked with libsvn_subr.so but libsvn_subr.so is provided by subversion, too and at relinking moment isn't yet installed in /usr/lib or /tmp/qq/usr/lib so relinking fails. I don't know why libtool tries to relink when I'm installing using different paths at make install (vs make all) but It should at least add -Lplacewhere/.libs/ libsvn_subr.so is (it knows where libsvn_subr.so can be found because in links with it at make all without any problems) My current and ugly workaround for this is make install prefix=/tmp/qq (and here few libraries (ie. libsvn_subr.so) will be properly installed while some other libraries like libsvn_ra_dav won't due to relinking failure) find . -name "*.la" -exec rm -f "{}" ";" (will cause to link *.o into *.so libs again) make install prefix=/tmp/qq (and this time relinking will success because for example libsvn_subr.so is already in /tmp/qq/usr/lib and libtool adds -L/tmp/qq/usr/lib at linking). Is there way/known patch to fix relinking in libtool? Or anything to disable relinking on linux/elf. PLD Linux/libtool 1.4d/automake 1.6/autoconf 2.53 -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz IPv6 ready PLD Linux at http://www.pld.org.pl misiek(at)pld.org.pl AM2-6BONE, 1024/3DB19BBD, arekm(at)ircnet, PWr _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool