Re: plugins on the command line are renamed

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Paul,

* Paul Biggar wrote on Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 02:25:38AM CET:
> $ ./libtool --mode=execute gdb --args  src/phc --run
> plugins/tests/raise_globals.la test/subjects/codegen/break_six.php
> GNU gdb 6.8-debian
> <snip some gdb output>
> (gdb) r
> Starting program:
> /home/pbiggar/phc_work/svn/branches/dataflow/src/.libs/lt-phc --run
> /home/pbiggar/phc_work/svn/branches/dataflow/src/.libs/lt-phc
> test/subjects/codegen/break_six.php -O1 --generate-c
> <snip program output, which is just an error that it cannot find
> /home/pbiggar/phc_work/svn/branches/dataflow/src/.libs/lt-phc>
> 
> The point of interest is that both the executable name "src/phc" and
> the .la file "plugins/tests/raise_globals.la" have both been renamed
> to "/home/pbiggar/phc_work/svn/branches/dataflow/src/.libs/lt-phc".,
> which is correct for the former but not the latter.

That looks like a libtool bug.

> Also:
> $ ./libtool --version
> ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.5.22 Debian 1.5.22-4 (1.1220.2.365
> 2005/12/18 22:14:06)

Uh, that's quite old, and we've fixed bugs in execute mode since.
Can you try a current libtool?  In your case, for just trying out
you shouldn't even need to re-bootstrap your package with the new
Libtool; it should be sufficient to build the Libtool 2.2.6 package,
install it somewhere (or just take a newer package from your
distribution), and try out

 path/to/new/libtool --mode=execute gdb --args  src/phc --run \
   plugins/tests/raise_globals.la test/subjects/codegen/break_six.php

to see if the problem persists.

Thanks,
Ralf