Re: libtool and DESTDIR support

[Steve M. Robbins]

On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 03:11:08PM -0400, steve wrote:

> Here's a new test case that demonstrates the problem, followed by a
> patch that incorporates it into the test suite.  Finally, there is a
> patch that fixes the problem, adapted from a patch by Sam Couter
> [c.f. http://bugs.debian.org/57087].

Well, the patch I sent is actually completely different from that of
http://bugs.debian.org/57087!  I don't know where I got my patch from.

I discovered that the latter patch doesn't originate from Sam Couter
after all.  I found it posted to bug-libtool in August 2001

  http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-libtool/2001-August/002806.html

apparently from some work by Redhat.  This patch was also discussed on
Redhat's bugzilla

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58664

and on libtool-patches in July 2002 

  http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/libtool-patches/2002-July/002061.html

No doubt there are other references.  

The patch has not been applied to CVS.  Is there some objection to it?


Second, I found that the test case I sent will succeed (erroneously)
because I placed it badly in the sequence of TESTs.  Here is an update
of the test case.  With unpatched CVS libtool, the test fails (except
when it follws depmod-static.test).  With the patch from redhat,
it works.

-Steve

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