Re: detect identical deplibs

[Peter O'Gorman]

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Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
| Current libtool (both branch-1-5 and CVS HEAD) does not detect identical
| deplibs in all cases:
|   sub/liba.la
|   ../sub/liba.la
|   ../../sub/liba.la
|   $top_builddir/sub/liba.la
|   $abs_top_builddir/sub/liba.la
|   -Lsub -la
|   /sub/.libs/liba.a
|
| or even referenced through symlinks, may all refer to the same library.
| I'm not certain that we're required to detect all of these cases.  We
| not not recommend to use the last two for in-tree deplibs and in fact,
| we recommend using relative paths in all cases, but they can still break
| down (I believe one of them is converted to absolute and the other is
| not, while comparing).
|
| The patch below does not change libtool behavior but adds a test
| exposing the issue.  Fixing the actual failure may be a bit hairy, and
| I'm not sure we should fix the `-Lsub -la' case, so I'm not going for it
| right away.
|
| OK to apply?

I thought we'd agreed to avoid having to use autotools if possible in the
new test suite. I don't see a requirement in these tests for
automake/autoconf...

Peter

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