On Sep 5, 2000, Alex Hornby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Using libtool CVS head there is a problem when make install is running
> with -j n, as if a Makefile.am builds a library and an executable
> linking against that library, there is no guarantee that the library
> will be installed first, thus the relinking of the exec fails during
> install and a shell script is put in its place.
Hmm... Interesting. It must have been a side effect of the enabling
of forced `relink' on GNU/Linux/x86. Anyway, on platforms that
actually require relinking, this problem remains, and I see no way to
overcome it other than arranging for automake to install libraries
before executables, as you suggest. This shouldn't be a big problem,
anyway.
A bigger problem could show up if two libraries in the same directory,
one dependent on the other, are installed concurrently. If relinking
is needed for the dependent library, we have a problem. It appears to
me that user will have to live without `make -j install', in this
case.
> Previous to my most recent "cvs update" libtool parallel installs had
> no problem with the current Automake generated makefiles.
That's just because you have been using a sane operating system. On
systems in which libtool can't behave sanely, this would have been a
problem before.
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