Re: (With Patch) Re: DESTDIR trouble

2003-07-08 Thread Abel Cheung
On 2003-07-07(Mon) 19:49:08 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Does this mean that things are more likely to be corrected if test cases are added? Yes, of course. Without minimal tests which exercize the necessary operations, the libtool maintainer is forced to assume that his changes are

Re: (With Patch) Re: DESTDIR trouble

2003-07-08 Thread Bernd Jendrissek
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 08:42:14PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: R For several _YEARS_, packagers for software were very troubled because R of not-completely-working staging install. I really hope this issue can R be sorted out, once and for all. One

Re: DESTDIR trouble

2003-07-07 Thread Bernd Jendrissek
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 02:09:40PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: Bernd Jendrissek wrote: I realise this may be an FAQ candidate, but I haven't gotten any joy out of google or the mail.gnu.org archives. My problem: I have, say, guile 1.4 installed, with libguile.so.9 in /usr/lib. Now

Re: (With Patch) Re: DESTDIR trouble

2003-07-07 Thread R.I.P. Deaddog
On 2003-07-06(Sun) 11:08:58 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: There is a catch-22 with this approach in that adding -L$inst_prefix_dir to the front of the linker search path may cause the wrong dependency libraries to be used, which is just as bad as picking up the wrong target library. The

Re: (With Patch) Re: DESTDIR trouble

2003-07-07 Thread R.I.P. Deaddog
On 2003-07-06(Sun) 11:08:58 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: There is a catch-22 with this approach in that adding -L$inst_prefix_dir to the front of the linker search path may cause the wrong dependency libraries to be used, which is just as bad as picking up the wrong target library. The

Re: (With Patch) Re: DESTDIR trouble

2003-07-07 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
R == R I P Deaddog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] R For several _YEARS_, packagers for software were very troubled because R of not-completely-working staging install. I really hope this issue can R be sorted out, once and for all. One way to address the once for all part would be to write

Re: (With Patch) Re: DESTDIR trouble

2003-07-07 Thread Abel Cheung
On 2003-07-07(Mon) 23:03:24 +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: R For several _YEARS_, packagers for software were very troubled because R of not-completely-working staging install. I really hope this issue can R be sorted out, once and for all. One way to address the once for all part

Re: (With Patch) Re: DESTDIR trouble

2003-07-07 Thread Charles Wilson
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: R For several _YEARS_, packagers for software were very troubled because R of not-completely-working staging install. I really hope this issue can R be sorted out, once and for all. One way to address the once for all part would be to write a test case. I don't

Re: (With Patch) Re: DESTDIR trouble

2003-07-07 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Abel Cheung wrote: On 2003-07-07(Mon) 23:03:24 +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: R For several _YEARS_, packagers for software were very troubled because R of not-completely-working staging install. I really hope this issue can R be sorted out, once and for all.

Re: DESTDIR trouble

2003-07-07 Thread Charles Wilson
Bernd Jendrissek wrote: I get this: /tmp/destdir-relinklib-demo-1.0.1: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp/relinkdemo/usr/lib ldd /tmp/relinkdemo/usr/lib/libtwo.so.1.1.1 libone.so.2 = /tmp/relinkdemo/usr/lib/libone.so.2 (0x40002000) libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x40012000)

(With Patch) Re: DESTDIR trouble

2003-07-06 Thread Abel Cheung
On 2003-07-05(Sat) 14:09:40 -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: Other than identifying the problem, I don't really know how to correct the remaining issue. But in this message http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2003-05/msg00022.html I posted a test case that demonstrates the issue; if

Re: (With Patch) Re: DESTDIR trouble

2003-07-06 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Abel Cheung wrote: On 2003-07-05(Sat) 14:09:40 -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: Other than identifying the problem, I don't really know how to correct the remaining issue. But in this message http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2003-05/msg00022.html I posted a

Re: DESTDIR trouble

2003-07-05 Thread Charles Wilson
Bernd Jendrissek wrote: I realise this may be an FAQ candidate, but I haven't gotten any joy out of google or the mail.gnu.org archives. My problem: I have, say, guile 1.4 installed, with libguile.so.9 in /usr/lib. Now I've tried to build guile 1.6.4 with a DESTDIR=foo install, but then things

DESTDIR trouble

2003-07-04 Thread Bernd Jendrissek
I realise this may be an FAQ candidate, but I haven't gotten any joy out of google or the mail.gnu.org archives. My problem: I have, say, guile 1.4 installed, with libguile.so.9 in /usr/lib. Now I've tried to build guile 1.6.4 with a DESTDIR=foo install, but then things get linked with the