Re: libtool chooses the wrong library version to link against

[Peter O'Gorman]

Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> this is about <http://bugs.debian.org/453035>.
> 
> when I am building gnutls on a system with a different version of
> gnutls already installed, libtool links the library libgnutls-extra
> against /usr/lib/libgnutls.so instead of against the correct new
> version DESTDIR/usr/lib/libgnutls.so.
> 
> The actual breakage does not happen at build time but at
> install time - ../lib/libgnutls.la is translated into -lgnutls:
> -----------------------------
> libtool: install: warning: relinking `libgnutls-extra.la'
> (cd /tmp/GNUTLS/gnutls25-2.1.6/libextra; /bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC 
> --mode=relink cc -std=gnu99 -g -Wall -O2 -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE -pipe -g 
> -Wall -O2 -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE -Wno-pointer-sign -no-undefined 
> -L/usr/lib -lopencdk -L/usr/lib -lgcrypt -L/usr/lib -lgpg-error -L/usr/lib 
> -lnsl -L/usr/lib -lz -version-info 25:1:0 -llzo2 
> -Wl,--version-script=./libgnutls-extra.vers -o libgnutls-extra.la -rpath 
> /usr/lib gnutls_extra.lo gnutls_openpgp.lo gnutls_ia.lo 
> openpgp/libgnutls_openpgp.la ../lgl/liblgnu.la ../lib/libgnutls.la 
> -inst-prefix-dir /tmp/GNUTLS/gnutls25-2.1.6/debian/tmp/)
> cc -std=gnu99 -shared  .libs/gnutls_extra.o .libs/gnutls_openpgp.o 
> .libs/gnutls_ia.o -Wl,--whole-archive openpgp/.libs/libgnutls_openpgp.a 
> ../lgl/.libs/liblgnu.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive  -L/usr/lib 
> -L/tmp/GNUTLS/gnutls25-2.1.6/debian/tmp//usr/lib -lopencdk -lnsl -lz -llzo2 
> -lgcrypt -lgpg-error -lgnutls  -Wl,--version-script=./libgnutls-extra.vers 
> -Wl,-soname -Wl,libgnutls-extra.so.25 -o .libs/libgnutls-extra.so.25.0.1
> -----------------------------

Do you know where the -L/usr/lib is coming from?

Peter
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