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

[Roger Håkansson]

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