Re: branch-1-5: root-owned libtool files in build tree after relink

[Thorsten Glaser]

Ralf Wildenhues dixit:

>> and let it happen in ${TMPDIR:-/tmp} if it has to be done.
>
>Why that?  (This is not a rhetorical question)

Because in that case you do not write to the build directory
at installation time.

>> Writing to the build directory at installation time is bad, really
>> bad, and for our base system builds (which does contain several
>> libtool'd stuff, such as libgcj) I am already preventing this by
>> using systrace(1).
>
>Does that mean relinking will then fail?  (I'm sorry, but I don't know
>much about systrace yet.)

Yes. I've had this once, but hacked around it in the special case
of libgcj (the others which come with gcc/binutils are easier).

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