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Re: portability of -L<relative_directory_name>


From: Peter O'Gorman
Subject: Re: portability of -L<relative_directory_name>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:55:52 -0600
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Hi Bruno,

Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A while ago someone said that if in a build directory I have a (not yet
> installed) ../lib/libfoo.la, to link with this library I should *not* use
> 
>    libtool ... -L../lib -lfoo
> 
> but rather mention the .la file explicitly:
> 
>    libtool ... -L../lib ../lib/libfoo.la

Even this will probably end up with the build directory encoded in the
.la file's dependency_libs, the -L../lib will be modified to
-L/absolute/path/to/lib and that added to dependency_libs.

> or
>    libtool ... ../lib/libfoo.la
> 
> Now I see the same advice in the second-to-last paragraph of
>   http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/Fink:Porting_Notes
> 
> Is it true that references to non-yet-installed libool libraries should not be
> made with -l? If so, it would be worth to document this in the libtool
> documentation. I didn't find it there.

I think this is a bug in libtool that it encodes the build directory
into the .la files, however, you are correct, it is a doc bug too, I
will look making a patch to the docs tonight.

Thanks,
Peter
-- 
Peter O'Gorman
http://pogma.com




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