Re: diff/Makefile.am

[Pavel Roskin]

Hello, Derek!

> > I don't understand what you mean, but probably we are talking about
> > different things. If you are linking against libfoo and it depends on
>
> No, I don't think we were.talking about different things.  I meant that when a
> Libtool lib gets installed that it installs a metadata file called libx.la 
> (where x
> is package-dependant), then shoves the "real" libx.a & libx.so files in a 
> '.libs'
> directory where they, in theory, won't be noticed.

If the word "installed" is indeed what you meant to say, it must be a very
serious bug in Libtool that I have never observed.

If it happens on your platform with a recent version of libtool it should
be reported to libtool@gnu.org.

I cannot reproduce this problem. Both shared and static libraries are
installed to the directory where they are meant to be.

[proski@fonzie glib-1.2.8]$ ./configure --prefix $HOME/tmp >/dev/null 2>&1
[proski@fonzie glib-1.2.8]$ make all install >/dev/null 2>&1
[proski@fonzie glib-1.2.8]$ ./ltconfig --version
ltconfig (GNU libtool) 1.3.4 (1.385.2.196 1999/12/07 21:47:57)
[proski@fonzie glib-1.2.8]$ ls $HOME/tmp/lib
glib                  libgmodule-1.2.so.0      libgthread-1.2.so.0.0.8
libglib-1.2.so.0      libgmodule-1.2.so.0.0.8  libgthread.a
libglib-1.2.so.0.0.8  libgmodule.a             libgthread.la
libglib.a             libgmodule.la            libgthread.so
libglib.la            libgmodule.so
libglib.so            libgthread-1.2.so.0
[proski@fonzie glib-1.2.8]$ file $HOME/tmp/lib/libglib.a
/home/proski/tmp/lib/libglib.a: current ar archive
[proski@fonzie glib-1.2.8]$ file $HOME/tmp/lib/libglib.so
/home/proski/tmp/lib/libglib.so: symbolic link to libglib-1.2.so.0.0.8
[proski@fonzie glib-1.2.8]$ file $HOME/tmp/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0.0.8
/home/proski/tmp/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0.0.8: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object,
Intel 80386, version 1, not stripped
[proski@fonzie glib-1.2.8]$ file $HOME/tmp/lib/libglib.la
/home/proski/tmp/lib/libglib.la: English text
[proski@fonzie glib-1.2.8]$ uname -a
Linux fonzie 2.4.2-ac5 #2 Wed Feb 28 11:19:53 EST 2001 i686 unknown

Regards,
Pavel Roskin