Re: (With Patch) Re: DESTDIR trouble

[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 think this ia test case that can be made part of the testsuite, 
unfortunately.

The problem is, you ONLY see the problem if all of the following are true:

1) you have multiple dependent constructs in a single project -- e.g. a 
sharedlib and an executable that depends on it, or two sharedlibs where 
one depends on the other, etc.

2) you are doing a DESTDIR install

3) you have PREVIOUSLY done a "real" install -- so that the sharedlib on 
which the second construct depends already exists in the "final" 
destination.

Then, relinking will pick up the pre-existing sharedlib in the "final" 
location, rather than the one in the DESTDIR.

In order to make #3 true, you have to muck with things "outside" of the 
testsuite tree...which kinda violates the whole premise of 
self-contained testing.

But, if anyone would like to give it a try, they are welcome to adapt 
any of the following standalone testcase if it is useful.
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2003-05/msg00022.html

--Chuck