Re: How is relinking with DESTDIR != installdir in newish libtool?

Do you ever have the problem that the libtool re-linker finds the old 
version of the thing you are building from /usr/lib before it finds the 
BUILDROOT one in /tmp/build-root/usr/lib?

That's my fear

pj



Tim Mooney wrote:
> In regard to: How is relinking with DESTDIR != installdir in newish...:
>
>
> > With libtool-1.4.2, I was using a patch (see below) that introduced
> > DESTDIR that fixed the problems with relinking that happened when
> > building RPMS. The problem was that when libraries were temporarily
> > installed to /tmp/buildroot/usr/lib the re-linker would look in the
> > final destination /usr/lib and fail.
> >
> > Has this problem been solved in the newer libtool such as 1.4.3 or 1.5?
> > How?  I just looked at ltmain.sh from 1.4.3 and there is no DESTDIR.
>
>
> 1.4.3 solved it in a different way, using a patch based either
> partially or fully on work done by Ossama Othman (I think).  It adds an
> argument "-inst-prefix-dir" that gets passed to libtool during the relink
> that happens during install.  It all happens automatically, so there's
> nothing new that a package builder needs to worry about.
>
> 1.4.3 has been working relatively well for me, for the majority of
> packages I've built with it.  I use BuildRoot installs exclusively.
>
> Tim



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