Re: Relink on AIX: Doesn't Just Work (TM)

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Daniel,

* Daniel Sands wrote on Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:45:34AM CET:
> When relink for install is done, any libs that are part of the same package
> will be linked by their full installed path and not by -L,-l.  This is
> because hardcode_direct is set to "yes".  It is true that if you specify a
> library by its path, its path will be linked into the program or library.
> But apparently for relinking libraries, libtool thinks this means that the
> full path is supposed to be used instead of -L,-l   This doesn't work unless
> the dependent .la's were already installed in their final install directory,
> instead of for packaging.  I would suggest that unless some specific command
> line option were used, AIX should use the libpath approach like most other
> platforms use.

Around this issue, CVS HEAD Libtool has some changed behavior over
branch-1-5.  Could you try the former (you can download a nightly
snapshot tarball, see URL on the Libtool homepage), and if you still see
issues, please describe an example setup that fails?

HEAD also has a couple of DESTDIR tests that expose those setups that
can currently work with libtool (which does not include the most general
case, as can be seen in another recent report).

Thanks,
Ralf