library was not installed

[Jan Engelhardt]

Hi,


in the testcase at http://jengelh.hopto.org/f/am.tar.bz2 ,
liba.la does not get installed. What is the cause of this and
how could I fix it?


thanks,
        Jan
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$ ./configure --prefix=$PWD/rt
$ make install
  CC       a.lo
  CC       b.lo
  CCLD     libb.la
  CCLD     liba.la
  CC       main.o
  CCLD     main
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jengelh/am'
test -z "/home/jengelh/am/rt/lib" || mkdir -p -- "/home/jengelh/am/rt/lib"
 /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c  'liba.la' 
'/home/jengelh/am/rt/lib/liba.la'
libtool: install: warning: relinking `liba.la'
(cd /home/jengelh/am; /bin/sh ./libtool  --silent --tag=CC --mode=relink gcc -g 
-O2 -o liba.la -rpath /home/jengelh/am/rt/lib a.lo libb.la )
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: 
cannot find -lb
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
libtool: install: error: relink `liba.la' with the above command before 
installing it
 /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c  'libb.la' 
'/home/jengelh/am/rt/lib/libb.la'
/usr/bin/install -c .libs/libb.so.0.0.0 /home/jengelh/am/rt/lib/libb.so.0.0.0
(cd /home/jengelh/am/rt/lib && { ln -s -f libb.so.0.0.0 libb.so.0 || { rm -f 
libb.so.0 && ln -s libb.so.0.0.0 libb.so.0; }; })
(cd /home/jengelh/am/rt/lib && { ln -s -f libb.so.0.0.0 libb.so || { rm -f 
libb.so && ln -s libb.so.0.0.0 libb.so; }; })
/usr/bin/install -c .libs/libb.lai /home/jengelh/am/rt/lib/libb.la
/usr/bin/install -c .libs/libb.a /home/jengelh/am/rt/lib/libb.a
chmod 644 /home/jengelh/am/rt/lib/libb.a
ranlib /home/jengelh/am/rt/lib/libb.a
PATH="$PATH:/sbin" ldconfig -n /home/jengelh/am/rt/lib
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Libraries have been installed in:
   /home/jengelh/am/rt/lib

If you ever happen to want to link against installed libraries
[...]
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test -z "/home/jengelh/am/rt/bin" || mkdir -p -- "/home/jengelh/am/rt/bin"
  /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c 'main' 
'/home/jengelh/am/rt/bin/main'
libtool: install: warning: `liba.la' has not been installed in 
`/home/jengelh/am/rt/lib'
/usr/bin/install -c .libs/main /home/jengelh/am/rt/bin/main
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jengelh/am'