Re: The old libtool magic returns to frustrate RPM building

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

Hi,

> On RH8.0, I am having trouble building an RPM for the Swarm libraries. 
> I get the same thing whether I use the libtool that is distributed with 
> RH8.0 or I use the libtool-1.4c edition that I took from their CVS last 
> year and built into rpms mentioned above. I can build/install Swarm just 
> fine with the regular old configure/make/make install, but if I try to 
> build the rpm I get a libtool failure because it can't find libraries 
> that are installed in the buildroot.  After the SPEC file dictates this
> 
> make prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{prefix} install

AFAIK, the customary and "correct" way (for autotools) is to do
make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT install

prefix should always indicate where the package lives *when it is 
installed*.

DESTDIR is used to install the files to the staging root, from where it is 
packaged.

If swarm doesn't comply with that, I'd suggest fixing that, but if it's 
autotooled, it probably already complies ;)

OTOH, I've had similar issues with libtool not being able to find libs 
it's installing in the staging root in the first place in rh80, but 
haven't been able to fix whatever's wrong yet, so I would sure be 
interested in seeing if when doing a proper install it still occurs for 
you or not.

Thomas


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