Re: libtool-1.5.22, please hold a little

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Peter,

* Peter O'Gorman wrote on Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 01:15:53AM CET:
> Hi,
> I'd like to fix this before 1.5.22:

Sure.  I had hoped to have enough time this weekend finally, but it
looks already that all of that will be spent pushing remaining bits
into branch-1-5 anyway.  :-/

> peter$ ./libtool --mode=link --tag=CC gcc -o libfoo.la foo.lo -rpath /nono 
> -L../nothere
> ./libtool: line 1: cd: ../nothere: No such file or directory
> libtool: link: cannot determine absolute directory name of `../nothere'
> 
> IMO, it should just keep any relative directory -L paths as is if they 
> don't exist.

That may be more difficult than it looks like..  What is the entry in
the installed .la file's dependency_libs supposed to be?  What if (part
of) the path is a symlink pointing relative but more than one level
deep?

Cheers,
Ralf