Bug in libtool 1.4d?

[Bil Wendling]

Hi all,

I'm using libtool 1.4d and autoconf 2.52.

We are running libtool for our application on an RS6000 IBM AIX 4
machine. At one point, we need to create a static only version of the
library. The Makefile line looks like:

lib:
        ../../libtool --mode=link $(CC) -static -rpath $(libdir) -o $@ \
                $(CFLAGS) $(LIB_OBJ) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS)

When I run it on the RS6000 machine, though, we get this:

mkdir .libs
mpcc_r -g -I. -I. -I../../src -I../../src -I../../tools/lib -DH5_DEBUG_API 
-DH5Z_DEBUG -DH5V_DEBUG -DH5T_DEBUG -DH5S_DEBUG -DH5P_DEBUG -DH5O_DEBUG 
-DH5MM_DEBUG -DH5I_DEBUG -DH5HG_DEBUG -DH5G_DEBUG -DH5F_DEBUG -DH5E_DEBUG 
-DH5D_DEBUG -UNDEBUG -I/u2/epourmal/4.1r5-sp/include -D_LARGE_FILES -c 
h5tools.c  -DPIC
mv -f h5tools.o .libs/h5tools.o
mpcc_r -g -I. -I. -I../../src -I../../src -I../../tools/lib -DH5_DEBUG_API 
-DH5Z_DEBUG -DH5V_DEBUG -DH5T_DEBUG -DH5S_DEBUG -DH5P_DEBUG -DH5O_DEBUG 
-DH5MM_DEBUG -DH5I_DEBUG -DH5HG_DEBUG -DH5G_DEBUG -DH5F_DEBUG -DH5E_DEBUG 
-DH5D_DEBUG -UNDEBUG -I/u2/epourmal/4.1r5-sp/include -D_LARGE_FILES -c 
h5tools_str.c  -DPIC
mv -f h5tools_str.o .libs/h5tools_str.o
mpcc_r -g -I. -I. -I../../src -I../../src -I../../tools/lib -DH5_DEBUG_API 
-DH5Z_DEBUG -DH5V_DEBUG -DH5T_DEBUG -DH5S_DEBUG -DH5P_DEBUG -DH5O_DEBUG 
-DH5MM_DEBUG -DH5I_DEBUG -DH5HG_DEBUG -DH5G_DEBUG -DH5F_DEBUG -DH5E_DEBUG 
-DH5D_DEBUG -UNDEBUG -I/u2/epourmal/4.1r5-sp/include -D_LARGE_FILES -c 
h5tools_utils.c  -DPIC
mv -f h5tools_utils.o .libs/h5tools_utils.o
ar cru .libs/libh5tools.a 
ranlib .libs/libh5tools.a
creating libh5tools.la
(cd .libs && rm -f libh5tools.la && ln -s ../libh5tools.la libh5tools.la)
Target "lib" is up to date.

which creates a library with no symbols.

Is this a known bug? I know I'm using the alpha edition of libtool, but
we need to because the stable branch has a bug in it which prevents us
from compiling things on AIX platforms while using MPI.

Thanks!

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