Thank you for the thoughtful response. On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 10:50 -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, Richard Shann wrote: > > > In the GNU/Denemo project we are trying to cross-build a for windows on > > Debian stable using static libraries. The libtool step is re-ordering > > the libraries before invoking the linker, and so it fails. > > The cross-environment has version 2.22 of GNU/Binutils, but I am not > > clear where the actual libtool is coming from - the host libtool is > > version 2.26b. > > It is not wise to use such an archaic libtool. You can determine > which version is actually used by doing './libtool --version' in the > build tree. My problem was that the build is done with some environment set, without hacking at it I cannot be sure what is being invoked (the tools are being built for doing the compiling and linking as well as the final executable) > > > I can't find online documentation for this version, and even in the > > latest version there is almost no mention of libtool re-ordering the > > directories as given. I noticed one previous email on this topic, which > > received no responses. Can someone help? > > If any libraries have .la files, then this cause libtool to inject > library dependencies (additional needed libraries) into the build, > which may have the apparent effect of re-ordering. But that is intended to be only an apparent effect - the later appearance of the library on the link line would surely not be deleted? This is what I appeared to encounter - no matter how many times I listed the set of libraries on the $(CXXLD) line a symbol which nm says was defined in a library was not found. > > Regardless, you should be using libtool 2.4.2. Libtool 2.2.6b is a a > security-patched version of libtool 2.2.6a, which was released in > 2008. Yes Debian stable is always about 2 years behind; I guess that is why it is called stable :) Trying to mix-and-match components is (for me) an exercise in frustration.
Once again, thanks - at the moment we have returned to trying to build using GNU/LilyPond's GUB system... Richard Shann _______________________________________________ https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
