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

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Roger,

Am 13.01.2010 um 17:51 schrieb 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

I would like to keep the general solution of excluding all libtool-files
and let the maintainer decide this on a case-by-case basis. Including
.la-files should be the exception.


Best regards

   -- Dago