Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Build errors

[Eric Blossom]

> >> Bob's machine is using
> >>   ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.5.22 Debian 1.5.22-4 (1.1220.2.365
> >> 2005/12/18 22:14:06)
> >>
> >> I'm using (SuSE 10.1)
> >>
> >>   ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.5.22 (1.1220.2.365 2005/12/18 22:14:06)
> >>
> >> It looks like the Debian folks may have applied some kind of a patch to
> >> libtool 1.5.22 that could be causing the problem.
> >>
> >> Can any debian/ubuntu users figure out the difference?  That is,
> >> what's the debian/ubuntu patch, and when and why was it applied?
> I found this on the debian buglist for libtool:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=320698
> Message received at address@hidden (full text, mbox):
> 
> From: Philip Martin <address@hidden>
> To: Loïc Minier <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Bug#320698: Debian-specific binary deps patch
> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 01:24:03 +0100
> 
> > It seems that Debian's libtool has a patch which will reduce
> > dependencies in binaries it produces.
> 
> One of the knock-on effects of this patch is bug 291641 where ld
> resolves symbols using installed libraries instead of libraries in the
> build directory.
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=291641
> 
> Subversion 1.2 has a Build-Conflicts with Subversion 1.1 to avoid
> this problem.
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> Martin

Looks like this change is flat-out wrong.  It prevents anybody that's
building libraries _and_ executables in the same build from testing
them before installing them.

It also disables a feature specifically designed into libtool: the
ability to test before installation

http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual.html#Linking-executables


I agree that http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=291641
describes a similar problem in January 2005.  It appears that we are
just now seeing a similar problem.  AFAIK ubuntu prior to 6.10 didn't
exhibit the problem.  They must have recently made some change.


Martin, or somebody else, can you say exactly how Ubuntu users should
work around this problem?  Can they just install libtool from Ubuntu
6.06?  When this is sorted out, can somebody please add directions to
the Ubuntu install wiki page?
http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/UbuntuInstall

Thanks,
Eric