Re: GNU Libtool 2.4 released [stable]

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 09/27/2010 03:41 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> ‎Thanks for the explanation!
>
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Ralf Wildenhues<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > > Also, why not take the value of the sysroot from the DESTDIR automake variable?
> >
> > Because we know DESTDIR far too late, only at 'make install' time and
> > not yet at the time we link against dependent libraries (that may
> > already be installed below the sysroot).
>
> But you do relink the libraries when 'make install' is executed.
> So why not relink it with proper sysroot?

Because if you removed sysroot syntax upon "make install", you would not 
be able to link future code with the newly-installed library.

Note that it's perfectly possible to use .la files on the final system 
that didn't go through "libtool --mode=finish", as long as all the 
packages you compile are upgraded to Libtool 2.4 (and IIUC, cygwin's 
packaging system for example is already re-libtoolizing each package, so 
it's not that hard to do this).

Paolo