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Summary: relink with a DESTDIR install mistakenly links
against old installed libraries rather than those in DESTDIR
Project: GNU Libtool
Submitted by: enchanter
Submitted on: Fri 02 Jul 2010 02:29:31 PM CDT
Category: None
Priority: 5 - Normal
Severity: 3 - Normal
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
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Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Operating System: None
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Details:
This issue affects all versions of libtool from 2.2.10 going back to the
initial versions that added support for DESTDIR installs.
Consider a package "package-1.0", which includes two libraries "liba" and
"libb". liba has a function named "a_1", and libb requires this function and
is linked against liba. package-1.0 gets installed on a system and everyone
is happy.
Now package-2.0 comes out. "liba" now has a new function "a_2", and libb now
uses both "a_1" and "a_2".
When compiling package-2.0, libb will correctly link against the liba that's
included in package-2.0.
If you just "make install", libb will be correctly relinked, because liba
will get installed in the final location first.
HOWEVER, if you do a "DESTDIR" install, the relink step for libb will fail,
because libtool doesn't prepend the DESTDIR library directory to the library
search path, so when libb is relinked, it finds the liba from package-1.0
that's already installed on the system. Since the 1.0 version of liba doesn't
have function "a_2", the relink fails.
This issue has been reported on the libtool mailing list several times, e.g.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2003-02/msg00098.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2003-05/msg00022.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2009-11/msg00010.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2002-11/msg00112.html
I can find more instances in the mailing lists if necessary, but you get the
point. It's affected a lot of people, and it's a real hassle for people that
do software packaging with something like RPM or apt.
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