I have two shared libraries, each made in a separate subdirectory. Both are made with automake and libtool.
One library depends on the other, and I've used libgimpprintui_la_LIBADD = $(GIMPPRINT_UI_LIBDEPS) to indicate this ($(GIMPPRINT_UI_LIBDEPS) includes $(top_builddir)/src/main/libgimpprint.la). This seems to work when building, although libgimpprintui has the path to the build tree libgimpprint.so hard-coded in. However, when I install, all libgimpprintui-using binaries are relinked incorrectly, so that they now use *two* binary-incompatible libgimpprint.so's: libtool: install: warning: relinking `libgimpprintui.la' (cd /home/roger/gimp-print/current/src/libgimpprintui; /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=relink gcc -Wall -Wcast-align -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Wwrite-strings -pedantic -I../../include -I../../include -I../../intl -g -O2 -o libgimpprintui.la -rpath /usr/local/lib -release 4.3.7 -rpath /usr/local/lib panel.lo plist.lo ui-utils.lo print-image-thumbnail.lo ../../src/main/libgimpprint.la -L/usr/lib ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm -inst-prefix-dir /tmp/inst) gcc -shared panel.lo plist.lo ui-utils.lo print-image-thumbnail.lo -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/tmp/inst/usr/local/lib -lgimpprint -L/usr/X11R6/lib ^^^^^^^^^^^ why!!! -L/tmp/inst/usr/lib -lgtk -lgdk -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm -Wl,-soname -Wl,libgimpprintui-4.3.7.so -o .libs/libgimpprintui-4.3.7.so $ ldd /usr/lib/libgimpprintui.so | grep libgimpprint libgimpprint.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgimpprint.so.1 (0x40028000) roger@whinlatter:/usr/lib/gimp/1.2/plug-ins$ ldd print | grep libgimpprint libgimpprintui-4.3.7.so => /usr/lib/libgimpprintui-4.3.7.so (0x4007a000) libgimpprint-4.3.7.so => /usr/lib/libgimpprint-4.3.7.so (0x4008f000) libgimpprint.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgimpprint.so.1 (0x40574000) roger@whinlatter:/usr/lib/gimp/1.2/plug-ins$ The installed version of libgimpprint (libgimpprint.so.1.1.0 is linked to libgimpprint.so.1), but the development version is versioned with -release, and called libgimpprint-4.2.7.so. Somehow, *both* versions are getting linked in... In the above example, I'm installing into a DESTDIR. I think a problem similar to this has been posted before to the list, but I'm not sure this is the same issue. I'm using libtool 4.2.3 (Debian unstable). Is there a way around this problem? Thanks, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 available on public keyservers _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool