Re: branch-1-5: root-owned libtool files in build tree after relink

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Thorsten,

* Thorsten Glaser wrote on Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 03:06:06PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues dixit:
> 
> >I noted a work-around in the MirBSD port of Libtool for root-created
> >leftovers in .libs after a `make install' which requires relinking,
> 
> I would rather like to see a way to *PREVENT* relinking if possible,

ACK.  branch-2-0/HEAD does relinking in fewer cases.  I have not
checked, though, if the set of cases can be reduced further.

> and let it happen in ${TMPDIR:-/tmp} if it has to be done.

Why that?  (This is not a rhetorical question)

> Writing to the build directory at installation time is bad, really
> bad, and for our base system builds (which does contain several
> libtool'd stuff, such as libgcj) I am already preventing this by
> using systrace(1).

Does that mean relinking will then fail?  (I'm sorry, but I don't know
much about systrace yet.)

> That would improve the overall quality of GNU software, too.

It would considerably ease building/packaging, yes.  Anything else?

Cheers,
Ralf