Re: libtool problem on system with 32 and 64 bit libraries

[Bernd Speiser]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Bernd Speiser wrote:
>
> > I am using autotools on openSUSE 11.0 x86_64 where I have a couple of 
> > libraries (notably the X libraries) installed as both 32 and 64 bit 
> > versions. I seem to have a problem which has been discussed several 
> > times on this list (libtool tries to link the 32 bit libraries instead 
> > of the 64 bit ones, resulting in a `could not read symbols: File in 
> > wrong format' error), however, all the ideas suggested there do not 
> > seem to work here.
> >
> > This are the versions of the autotools
> > autoconf: 2.61
> > automake: 1.10.1
> > libtool: 1.5.26
>
> It seems that your libtool is out of date.  The current release is 
> 2.2.6.  It is likely to work better.
>
> Bob
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Bob,
thanks for this info. 1.5.26 is the default for openSUSE 11.0. However, 
I have installed libtool version 2.2.6 on my system now.
With this, after regeneration of of the aclocal.m4 files, I still get an 
error message, although a different one:

libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libXfixes.la' or 
unhandled argument `/usr/lib/libXfixes.la'

Here is the result of a call to `locate libXfixes':
/usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3
/usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3.1.0
/usr/lib64/libXfixes.a
/usr/lib64/libXfixes.la
/usr/lib64/libXfixes.so
/usr/lib64/libXfixes.so.3
/usr/lib64/libXfixes.so.3.1.0
So, there still for this library the incorrect path is used. Or am I 
doing something wrong?
Best regards
Bernd

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