Re: libtool causing oprofile build failure when configuring with --with-binutils

[Peter O'Gorman]

Maynard Johnson wrote:
> Hello,
> We recently released OProfile 0.9.4, which for the first time includes
> some libraries that must be installed along with the usual OProfile
> tools.  We introduced the use of libtool in our project to support the
> installation of these new OProfile libraries.  Now, a user has reported
> the following error when building OProfile:
> 
>     ./configure --with-kernel-support --with-binutils=/my-binutils
>         (NOTE: If you don't have an alternate binutils to point to,
>     specifying --with-binutils=/usr will give same failure)

Your configure script adds spaces after -I and -L before the directory.
GCC is ok with this, libtool not so much.

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

--- configure.in~       2008-07-17 18:04:22.000000000 -0500
+++ configure.in        2008-07-31 14:13:35.000000000 -0500
@@ -39,9 +39,9 @@
        if test "$CXXFLAGS" = ""; then
                CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
        fi
-       CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I $BINUTILSDIR/include"
-       CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -I $BINUTILSDIR/include"
-       LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L $BINUTILSDIR/lib -Xlinker -R -Xlinker 
$BINUTILSDIR/lib"
+       CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I$BINUTILSDIR/include"
+       CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -I$BINUTILSDIR/include"
+       LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$BINUTILSDIR/lib -Xlinker -R -Xlinker 
$BINUTILSDIR/lib"
 fi
 
 AC_ARG_WITH(gcc,
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 if test "$GCCDIR" != ""; then
        CC="$GCCDIR/bin/gcc"
        CXX="$GCCDIR/bin/g++"
-       LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L $GCCDIR/lib -Xlinker -R -Xlinker $GCCDIR/lib"
+       LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$GCCDIR/lib -Xlinker -R -Xlinker $GCCDIR/lib"
 fi
 
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