DESTDIR trouble

[Bernd Jendrissek]

I realise this may be an FAQ candidate, but I haven't gotten any joy out
of google or the mail.gnu.org archives.

My problem:

I have, say, guile 1.4 installed, with libguile.so.9 in /usr/lib.  Now
I've tried to build guile 1.6.4 with a DESTDIR=foo install, but then
things get linked with the guile libs *in /usr/lib*!  (I think most of
you should be familiar with the scenario.)  So I have new libraries linked
to the old ones.

I have libtool 1.5 installed, and it *doesn't* work properly with DESTDIR.
I've seen DESTDIR-related messages in the archives, but they always seem
to wind down with "this is fixed in 1.5" or something to that effect.

A while back I tried looking at ltmain.sh and after much hair-pulling I
found a spot where $deplibs get reordered.  WHY???  Is it accidental, or
is there some purpose?  The problem is that even though -L/usr/lib gets
put at the *end* $deplibs, a subsequent loop reverses everything!

(Unfortunately I've lost the place, and any change is likely to be
non-trivial, and my employer talks about "internal open-source", so I'm
unlikely to be able to contribute any patches.)

I'd prefer a proper fix, not some LIBRARY_PATH=foo hackery.  Any
suggestions?

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