Re: make always relinks the shared libraries

[Sven Joachim]

On 2018-08-19 11:48 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 09:34:51AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> Running make twice ought to do nothing in the second run, but if shared
>> libraries are enabled, they will always be relinked.  Example:
> ...
>> If "--without-progs --without-tests" is not specified, the result is
>> even worse since the programs are recompiled in the second make run.
>> This increases build times, invalidates stamp files and has caused
>> race conditions in the Debian build as noticed by Helmut Grohne in
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=903790.
>
> In my test-package, with the changes for "--disable-relink", I don't
> see any relinking left to fix...

Indeed, but there seems to be another problem now: "make install" does
not always replace the shared libraries in the destination directory.
This breaks the Debian build, which relies on installing the non-wide
libraries first, then the wide ones.  In my test build, dpkg-gensymbols
complained about missing symbols in libtinfo.so.6 because of that.

Thanks for working on this issue.

Cheers,
       Sven