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

[rupert THURNER]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 18:00, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
svn-1.6.7 also was complaining about a missing .la file, while svn-1.6.6 did
not. i had no time to track down if this was caused by a libtool upgrade in
between the build, or the subversion build changed.
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