Re: bogus warning 'seems to be moved'

[Dave Korn]

On 22/09/2010 09:49, Marco Atzeri wrote:

> Dear developers,
> is this bogus warning avoidable in the next release ?
>  
> libtool: link: warning:
> `/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../libfontconfig.la'
> seems to be moved
> libtool: link: warning:
> `/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../libexpat.la'
> seems to be moved
> ...
>  
> as the files are
>  
> /usr/lib/libfontconfig.la
> /usr/lib/libexpat.la
> ..
> 
> the *.la files did not moved at all

  I see this warning re: libintl when I build libgcj.

  In that case, it happens because for some reason (I haven't established yet
whether this is down to libtool or the libgcj makefile) something goes wrong
with directory search paths, and /lib appears in the list ahead of /usr/lib.

  As a consequence, libtool finds the .la file via Cygwin's /lib mountpoint
rather than the real /usr/lib path, all the relative paths are wrong and it
looks like the control script has been moved.  This shows up in the warning it
issues:

> libtool: link: warning: `/lib/libiconv.la' seems to be moved

  I wonder if your problem has a similar cause underlying in some way?

    cheers,
      DaveK