Re: gettext libintl.la dependency_libs problem

[Albert Chin]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 07:07:42PM -0600, Albert Chin wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:30:58PM -0600, Tim Mooney wrote:
> > I'm on the libtool list, but not the bug-gnu-gettext list.  I haven't
> > looked at this problem long enough to know with any certainty where the
> > bug is, but my guess is libtool.
> > 
> > Take a platform like alphaev56-dec-osf5.1 or mips-sgi-irix6.5.  Build
> > GNU libiconv 1.8, and install it somewhere, say /usr/local/gnu.  Now
> > build GNU gettext 0.11.5 to install under the same path.  Gettext's
> > configure should detect libiconv and use it.  The problem is, in
> > the `libintl.la' file that is generated for gettext, the dependency_libs
> > line ends up like:
> > 
> > # Libraries that this one depends upon.
> > dependency_libs=' -R/usr/local/gnu/lib -L/usr/local/gnu/lib 
> > /usr/local/gnu/lib/libiconv.la -lc'
> 
> This is obviously wrong.

I take this back. This is entirely correct.

> > Now say you build some package (for me it was glib-2.2.0) that depends on
> > gettext.  When you go to link the package on a platform like Tru64 or
> > IRIX, the link will fail because libtool passes the `-R/usr/local/gnu/lib'
> > to whatever is doing the linking on the platform in question (ld
> > generally).
> > 
> > Many vendor compilers and linkers don't understand `-R', so the link
> > bombs.

Show the command-line doing this.

> > I tried rebuilding the configure machinery that comes with gettext 0.11.5
> > to use libtool 1.4.3 (currently it uses 1.4.2), and the results were the
> > same, so it's not something that was a bug in older libtool but is fixed
> > with recent libtool.
> > 
> > My initial impression is that either
> > 
> > 1) `-R/some/path' should never be getting into the lib<whatever>.la file
> > in the first place
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > 2) libtool should be translating -R when it sees it to whatever is
> > appropriate for the current compiler and/or linker, when libtool later
> > links something with `lib<whatever>.la'.
> 
> I always apply something like the following to gettext. What is of
> main interest is the last context diff. The rest is to make it
> autoconf 2.5x compatible.

Is the failure during ./configure? If so, then the culprit is
definitely not libtool as libtool does not compile nor link anything
during ./configure.

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albert chin (address@hidden)