Re: A minor libtool problem

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> Sorry for the long delay.
>
> * Peter Breitenlohner wrote on Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 05:05:43PM CEST:
> > When building packages using libtool there frequently are (lots of) warnings
> > such as (edited to avoid overlong lines):
> >
> > libtool: link: warning: \
> >         `/usr/lib/gcc/ix86-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../..//libgmodule-2.0.la' \
> >         seems to be moved
> >
> > whereas in fact
> >         /usr/lib/gcc/ix86-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../..
> > is the same as
> >         /usr/lib
> > where libgmodule-2.0.la was installed.
> >
> > Would it be possible to avoid this noise by checking that the two paths are
> > actually the same
>
> Hmm.
>
> > (or maybe that's already in the CVS)?
>
> No, that is not fixed.
>
> The problem with fixing this is that the warning is trivial albeit a bit
> runtime-expensive to fix, ...........
>
> .........  So no, I don't think it is
> a good idea to apply this patch.

Hi Ralf,

OK, I see. In the case I mentioned above, I'm almost certain the
non-canonical paths originate from gcc (gcc --print-xxx).

Maybe gcc could be taught not to produce these (but who is going to convince
the gcc people?).

regards
Peter Breitenlohner <address@hidden>