Re: what do these warnings mean: library.la was moved...

[Bernd Jendrissek]

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Bob Friesenhahn
<address@hidden> wrote:
>  It is popular to use DESTDIR to redirect installation to a temporary
> directory.  On some systems, this does not cause a difference but on others
> the libraries should be relinked to reflect their final location.  Libtool's
> --mode=finish is used to fix up libraries that need to be registered in
> their final resting place.

I'm afraid I don't grok this (nor the manual's similar wording).

Does this mean that a binary package management system that does a
staged install into $(DESTDIR) needs to do libtool --finish AFTER it
installs the binary package on a target host, or is a tar -x good
enough, as long as the absolute path of the final install location is
equal to the path following the $(DESTDIR) substring in the staged
install?