Re: libtool and AFS - chronic problem

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Jeff,

Sorry for the late answer.

* Jeff Blaine wrote on Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 09:08:10PM CEST:
>
> The situation below represents how we build all of our
> applications.  After the make install (if it would succeed...),
> we "release" the area /afs/rcf/system/dest/lin24v2/local/myapp/010
> to some of our machines.  They have a symlink '/usr/rcf' which
> points to this "beta" release area.

So /usr/rcf is the real prefix.

> The software is tested.  When it is found to be legit, we release
> that area to our production machines which have a '/usr/rcf'
> symlink pointing to the 'production' release area.
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/rcf
> make
> make install prefix=/afs/rcf/system/dest/lin24v2/local/myapp/010
> ...
> Cannot install foo to a directory not ending in /usr/rcf/whatever-here

Can you do
  make install DESTDIR=/afs/rcf/system/dest/lin24v2/local/myapp/010

(which may need another subtree usr/rcf there, which you could move
later on, however)
and then on the production machines once do a
  libtool --mode=finish /usr/rcf/lib
?  Changing prefix is not the right thing to do here.

I do very much agree that this is a nuisance and a problem, but it is
not easily solved without breaking other stuff, esp. relinking when it
proves necessary.  See for example [1] for some more (but by far not
all) information on this.  We need to find a better way to do this.

Cheers,
Ralf

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2005-06/msg00161.html