Re: (With Patch) Re: DESTDIR trouble

2003-07-07 Thread Bernd Jendrissek
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 08:42:14PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > > > > > R> For several _YEARS_, packagers for software were very troubled because > > R> of not-completely-working staging install. I really hope this issue can > > R> be sorted out, once and for al

Re: (With Patch) Re: DESTDIR trouble

2003-07-07 Thread Abel Cheung
On 2003-07-07(Mon) 19:49:08 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > Does this mean that things are more likely to be corrected if test cases > > are added? > > Yes, of course. Without minimal tests which exercize the necessary > operations, the libtool maintainer is forced to assume that his > changes

Re: (With Patch) Re: DESTDIR trouble

2003-07-07 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Abel Cheung wrote: > On 2003-07-07(Mon) 23:03:24 +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > > R> For several _YEARS_, packagers for software were very troubled because > > R> of not-completely-working staging install. I really hope this issue can > > R> be sorted out, once and for

Re: (With Patch) Re: DESTDIR trouble

2003-07-07 Thread Charles Wilson
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: R> For several _YEARS_, packagers for software were very troubled because R> of not-completely-working staging install. I really hope this issue can R> be sorted out, once and for all. One way to address the "once for all" part would be to write a test case. I don't

Re: (With Patch) Re: DESTDIR trouble

2003-07-07 Thread Abel Cheung
On 2003-07-07(Mon) 23:03:24 +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > R> For several _YEARS_, packagers for software were very troubled because > R> of not-completely-working staging install. I really hope this issue can > R> be sorted out, once and for all. > > One way to address the "once for all"

Re: (With Patch) Re: DESTDIR trouble

2003-07-07 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "R" == R I P Deaddog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] R> For several _YEARS_, packagers for software were very troubled because R> of not-completely-working staging install. I really hope this issue can R> be sorted out, once and for all. One way to address the "once for all" part would

Re: (With Patch) Re: DESTDIR trouble

2003-07-07 Thread R.I.P. Deaddog
On 2003-07-06(Sun) 11:08:58 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > There is a "catch-22" with this approach in that adding > -L$inst_prefix_dir to the front of the linker search path may cause > the wrong dependency libraries to be used, which is just as bad as > picking up the wrong target library. The

Re: (With Patch) Re: DESTDIR trouble

2003-07-07 Thread R.I.P. Deaddog
On 2003-07-06(Sun) 11:08:58 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > There is a "catch-22" with this approach in that adding > -L$inst_prefix_dir to the front of the linker search path may cause > the wrong dependency libraries to be used, which is just as bad as > picking up the wrong target library. The

Re: (With Patch) Re: DESTDIR trouble

2003-07-06 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Abel Cheung wrote: > On 2003-07-05(Sat) 14:09:40 -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > > Other than identifying the problem, I don't really know how to correct > > the remaining issue. But in this message > > > > http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2003-05/msg00022.html > > > >