Re: libtool doesn't allow "make DESTDIR=`pwd`/foo install" anymore.

[Paul E Johnson]

Obviously, I can't invest the time to bugshoot all these applications 
that won't compile, about which I have been emailed by many people in 
this list during the past 2 hours.

I can add this information, however.

I achieved this success with the newer automake and autoconf,
$ rpm -q automake
automake-1.5-1pj
address@hidden fs]$ rpm -q autoconf
autoconf-2.52-1pj

which are also in my software directory.  I did not try to rebuild an 
SRPM file with this libtool, instead I started from a source tree and 
did the automake/autoconf ritual to create the tarball, and built the 
RPM from there.

It easily could be true that tarballs or SRPMS that were built with old 
versions of libtool and automake/autoconf do not rebuild with the 
current libtool. Maybe some libtool maintainers will enter this thread 
and tell us their expectations.

Other than to say "this worked in the case I tested" I am not making any 
claims about the setup.

It seems to me that if you want to rebuild an RPM from an SRPM that was 
compiled with the old libtool, your easiest path is to stick to the old 
libtool.

pj


Martin Norbäck wrote:

> tis 2001-11-27 klockan 17.38 skrev Paul E Johnson:
>
> > This libtool issue is a known and fixed problem in libtool cvs.  I built 
> > rpms of that snapshot of libtool and I've tested it and it does work. 
> > If you want to try the RPMS, I stashed them in here
> > http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/software
>
> I tried rebuilding the ogle RPM with your new version of libtool
> (libtool-20011121-1pj), and got the errors shown in the attached file.
>
> There are still things like
>
> libtool: install: warning: `../ogle/libmsgevents.la' has not been
> installed in `/usr/lib/ogle'
>
> Regards,
>
>         Martin

>



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