Re: Libtool is linking the wrong library (location) in and I can't figure out what's causing it.

[Jim Lynch]

On 10/26/2012 07:22 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> Sorry if this is terse, I'm on my phone. In the first case, you're 
> using a library, liblog4cplus.so, that's installed in your home 
> directory. Libtool sees this as outside the dynamic linker's path and 
> adds a runpath so you're program will find the library at runtime 
> without setting any environment variables. This is either helpful or a 
> nuisance depending on your perspective.
>
> One thing I'd suggest is rather than toying with prefix, which tells 
> the tools where you're going to run the program from, use the DESTDIR 
> make variable to stage the installation into your home directory.
>
> Dan
Hi, Dan,
Thanks for the input.  While the liblog4cplus.so was in my home 
directory, it was also in /usr/lib.  Libtool is just too smart I guess.  
The solution was to clear the build directory before the make.  You're 
observation was key to that solution.  I suspect the DESTDIR would have 
also worked but since I didn't need the files in the build directory 
once the rpmbuild was completed, it made sense to clean them up.

Thank you very much,

Jim.