Given certain circumstances, libtool 2.4.2 fails to install a library. (a) The target directory spec contains a trailing slash (b) The library to install is linking to another just-built one in a different path.
$ cat Makefile AC_INIT([foo], [0]) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign]) AC_PROG_CC LT_INIT AC_DISABLE_STATIC AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile]) AC_OUTPUT $ cat Makefile.am lib_LTLIBRARIES = libbase.la libbase_la_SOURCES = foo.c phpdir = /usr/lib/php/extensions/ php_LTLIBRARIES = foo.la foo_la_SOURCES = foo.c foo_la_LDFLAGS = -module -avoid-version foo_la_LIBADD = libbase.la $ cat foo.c int dummy; == What's observed == $ autoreconf -fi; ./configure; make install DESTDIR=/tmp/YY […snip…] libtool: install: ranlib /tmp/YY/usr/local/lib/libbase.a libtool: install: warning: remember to run `libtool --finish /usr/local/lib' /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/tmp/YY/usr/lib/php/extensions/' /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c foo.la '/tmp/YY/usr/lib/php/extensions/' libtool: install: error: cannot install `foo.la' to a directory not ending in /usr/lib/php/extensions/ Makefile:411: recipe for target 'install-phpLTLIBRARIES' failed make[1]: *** [install-phpLTLIBRARIES] Error 1 $ cat foo.la […] # Directory that this library needs to be installed in: libdir='/usr/lib/php/extensions/' […] == What should have happened instead == Produce a .la file whose "libdir" variable contains no trailing slash(es) so that libtool --mode=install won't trip, and/or make libtool robust so that it can deal with trailing slash(es) read from $libdir. _______________________________________________ https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
