On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 08:52:00PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 08:31:15PM CET: > > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Noah Misch wrote:
> > >If Automake descends into SUBDIRS to install in the same order it > > >does to build and uses `make' dependencies to ensure proper ordering > > >within each SUBDIR, then the products should relink/install in the > > >correct order. Right? > > > > That would be my assumption as well. The current library install > > mechanism does not ensure that libraries are installed in the same > > order that they are built. > > This statement seems to me to imply that Automake should be able to do > the job on its own, without any additional information from libtool, > given the library dependencies are stated correctly in the > Makefile.am's. I think so. Every working build order is a correct installation order. If the build succeeds, Automake knows one working build order. It therefore knows one workable installation order. > So, can the user not enforce inter-Makefile dependencies through the use > of `libfoo_la_DEPENDENCIES = sub/libbar.la' ? That would not improve installation order correctness at this time. > > A problem exists in that if a library is already installed on > > the system, it may be used by accident, either at build time, or at > > install time. This masks serious build/install ordering issues. > > Yes. Automake could unmask these issues by unlinking every file it is about to install before installing them. Unfortunately, this would keep the user from meaningfully specifying `install' options to, for example, make backup copies. As you say, using distcheck is a robust way to flush out these issues. > > Package developers usually already have the library installed on the > > system so they may not see the failure in their environment, but > > end-users do. 'make distcheck' helps significantly with discovering > > these problems. > > BTW, this topic shouldn't have any extra issues in the cases of staged > installs (checked by `make distcheck') and cross-compilation, right? I cannot think of any. _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
