Re: Re: libtool: install: warning: remember to run `libtool --finish /usr/local/expat/2.0.1/lib'

[Perrog]

Thanks for the help, Ralf!

2006/12/8, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden>:
> Hello Perrog,
>
> * Perrog wrote on Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 07:41:20AM CET:
> >
> [...]
> > $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/expat/2.0.1
> > $ make
> > $ sudo make install prefix=/usr/local
> >
> > Obviously, "make install prefix=/usr/local" forgets to update
> > libexpat.la.
>
> Correct.  Libtool violates the GNU Coding Standards in this regard.
> There is a (weak) reason: in some situations, paths are hard-coded
> in the library (and not only the text file).  I don't know a good
> way to write an efficient portable Makefile that would detect user
> overrides of 'prefix' at install time and relink in that case.

Sounds like some kind of limitation in make system and not particular
libtool; make cannot detect portion of changes inside the file, it
just checks modification date. C.p. the issue with Sun's Java make
tool, http://www.experimentalstuff.com/Technologies/JavaMake/index.html