Re: Problem with /.libs/.libs/ during link

[Peter O'Gorman]

Dan S. Camper wrote:

> I just updated one of my systems to libtool 1.5.6, ran libtoolize to ensure
> that the support files in my conftools/ subdirectory were updated, then
> executed autoheader, autoconf, 'make distclean' and ./configure to bring
> everything back to square one.  Unfortunately, the problem still exists (and
> is identical).
>
> This problem of /.libs/.libs/ showing up on the link line seems to date back
> to 2000, at least according to Google.  In many cases it was dismissed as
> someone adding -L./.libs or something to the link command, or otherwise
> manually futzing with the libtool commands.  I'm not doing that here.
>
> I tried looking through the libtool script and, frankly, I needed to lay
> down afterwards.  That made my head hurt.

Dammit, looks like I only fixed it in HEAD, not branch-1-5. :(

Looking for the patch now.... this looks like the relevant bit. Can you 
please apply it and confirm a fix, thanks.

Peter
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Peter O'Gorman - http://www.pogma.com

Index: ltmain.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/libtool/libtool/ltmain.in,v
retrieving revision 1.334.2.32
diff -u -3 -p -u -r1.334.2.32 ltmain.in
--- ltmain.in   1 Apr 2004 04:34:22 -0000       1.334.2.32
+++ ltmain.in   29 Apr 2004 14:00:16 -0000
@@ -2151,10 +2151,17 @@ EOF
            absdir="$libdir"
          fi
        else
-         dir="$ladir/$objdir"
-         absdir="$abs_ladir/$objdir"
-         # Remove this search path later
-         notinst_path="$notinst_path $abs_ladir"
+         if test ! -f "$ladir/$objdir/$linklib" && test -f 
"$abs_ladir/$linklib"; then
+           dir="$ladir"
+           absdir="$abs_ladir"
+           # Remove this search path later
+           notinst_path="$notinst_path $abs_ladir"
+         else
+           dir="$ladir/$objdir"
+           absdir="$abs_ladir/$objdir"
+           # Remove this search path later
+           notinst_path="$notinst_path $abs_ladir"
+         fi
        fi # $installed = yes
        name=`$echo "X$laname" | $Xsed -e 's/\.la$//' -e 's/^lib//'`