Hello,
Is there a version of libtool that is compatible with the 1.59
autoconf and with the x86_64 file system layout for 64-bit systems?
Otherwise I will be making a fragile patch script for libtool, which
is not an elegant solution to my problems . . .
I have been trying to install a large and complex graphics
application on a Fedora Core 5 64-bit system (x86_64). This variant
of Linux places 64-bit libraries in /usr/lib64, and 32-bit libraries
in /usr/lib. Most of the required support packages for this
application installed from source quite nicely, using ./configure &&
make && make install. However, the packages using OpenGL all
failed. I found that the libtool-generated gcc commands for
mode=link were incorrect.
Versions: autoconf 1.59, automake 1.9.6, libtool 1.5.22
The problem was traced to the point where libtool was trying to hard-
code the dynamic library names into the shared library; on this
system it is done by directly inserting it into the list of loaded
objects, thus:
gcc (many options and object files) -L(some libraries) -lthis -lGL -
lthat /usr/lib/libGL.so (more stuff)
Autoconf had previously found /usr/lib64/libGL.so and told libtool
where to find it, so the "-lGL" picked up the correct library, but a
different path list is used to locate the library for hard-coding the
path.
I tried to fix the problem by stepping up to the latest releases of
autoconf, automake, and libtool, but ran into some significant
headaches since this is the first time I have had to get very deeply
into this software. First, I had to upgrade the macros used since
autoconf 1.61 is more picky than 1.59. Then I ran into some problems
trying to make autoreconf find and use the local macros -- it kept
losing them and breaking the configuration. I finally did a manual
version of autoreconf and got a good configure file (I thought) but
the final compilation commands were breaking on the names of the
files containing the dependencies -- there was something strange
going on about the .Tpo files that I did not have time to locate. I
strongly suspect that these problems are due to the changes in the
macro libraries and if I knew more about that I would not have these
problems.
Thanks,
Lynn Ten Eyck
Lynn F. Ten Eyck, E. T. S. Walton Visiting Professor
UCD Conway Institute Office: S055
Conway
University College Dublin Tel. +353 1
716-6845
Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland email:
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