[csw-maintainers] libtool rearranges linker arguments and puts -L/opt/csw/lib last

[Roger Håkansson]

Roger Håkansson wrote:
> Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>> Hi Phil,
>>
>> Am 12.01.2010 um 18:32 schrieb Philip Brown:
>>> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Given the issues we constantly hit with libtool, I always find myself
>>>> wondering if it was ever a benefit instead of a burden.  Any
>>>> grey-beards care to offer some historical perspective on this?
>>>
>>> "libtool evil".
>>>
>>> this is why our official documented guidelines are,
>>> "REMOVE .la files from your packages" !!!
>>
>> He he, and just now I get a bug report for a package that doesn't work
>> without the .la-files:
>>   <http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4145>
> 
> Same as ImageMagick, they use libtool runtime to load internal modules.
> So MERGE_EXCLUDE_LIBTOOL need to be set to
> MERGE_EXCLUDE_LIBTOOL ?= $(libdir)/lib.*\.la instead of
> MERGE_EXCLUDE_LIBTOOL ?= $(libdir)/.*\.la

Note: Thats not a general solution, packages with 64-bit libs or 
packages which have libraries in other places need to have 
MERGE_EXCLUDE_LIBTOOL properly set.

"MERGE_EXCLUDE_LIBTOOL ?= $(libdir).*/lib.*\.la" might be a more general 
solution