Hi Ralf,
thank you for spending your time resolving my problem.
> First, a note to your Makefile:
>
> | ${LIB_A}: ${OBJS_A}
> | libtool --mode=link ${CC} -o $@ $^ -static
> |
> | # -rpath is mandatory, libtool --mode=install will fail otherwise.
> | ${LIB_SO}: ${OBJS_SO}
> | libtool --mode=link ${CC} -o $@ $^ -version-number ${VERSION}
> -rpath ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib
>
> You don't need both of these rules. As the output from 1.4 shows, the
> second one builds both static and shared libraries.
> I would write like this (modulo naming):
>
> | LIBTOOL = libtool
> |
> | libfoo.la: $(OBJS_LA)
> | $(LIBTOOL) $(LIBTOOLFLAGS) --mode=link $(CC) -o $@ $^
> -version-number ${VERSION} -rpath /usr/lib
Ok, I'll do that. Note as far as I read the documentation, this is not
explicitely explained that compiling a shared library also produces a
static one.
> You should really omit $(DESTDIR) in -rpath here (but not in the install
> rules)!
Done, I didn't know that.
> I'd also write
>
> | clean:
> | $(LIBTOOL) --mode=clean /bin/rm $(OBJS_SO)
>
> which should remove all your built objects
Ok, I didn't know that too :-). I've had a look through the
documentation, it would be worth to give an example of the use of
this mode, IMHO.
> Now back to the problem: Show
>
> $ libtool --config
> $ libtool --features
>
> for both versions. Next question might be that I'd like you to try
> 1.5.18, in order to prevent any known regressions from skewing what we
> see here (unless it's obvious from above output what's happening here).
> If you do build 1.5.18 yourself, show output of its configure run plus
> config.log as well.
Note that both version of libtool I use actually are issued from Debian
unstable (sid). Package "libtool1.4" provides libtool-1.4.3 and package
"libtool" provides libtool-1.5.6. They are mutually exclusive.
I'm building libtool-1.5.18 using the debian/ directory from the libtool
package. The typescript of package building is attached too ; FYI,
the configure script output begins at line 91 and ends at about line
370. While here, I got --config and --features from the latter too.
I didn't attached everything though, to avoid flooding the mail server,
please look at the following URLs :
http://tataz.chchile.org/~tataz/libtool/libtool-1.4.3--config
http://tataz.chchile.org/~tataz/libtool/libtool-1.4.3--features
http://tataz.chchile.org/~tataz/libtool/libtool-1.5.6--config
http://tataz.chchile.org/~tataz/libtool/libtool-1.5.6--features
http://tataz.chchile.org/~tataz/libtool/libtool-1.5.18--config
http://tataz.chchile.org/~tataz/libtool/libtool-1.5.18--features
http://tataz.chchile.org/~tataz/libtool/libtool-1.5.18.build.typescript
I think I got my problem resolved by using the lastest version of
libtool (1.5.18) : with exactly the same command sequence, I get
a static library with libtool-1.5.18 in the .libs/ directory, while
libtool-1.5.6 doesn't produce it. Is it a known behaviour ? Are there
any workaround to this, except upgrading my libtool version (we have
our own Debian distribution at work, and upgrading a package in it is,
unfortunately, a heavy process, especially when the package is still
not released by the Debian maintainer) ? If there isn't, I would send
a notice to the Debian maintainer to let him know about this bug.
Thanks again.
Best regards,
--
Jeremie LE HEN aka TtZ/TataZ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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