Re: libtool does not read LIBRARY_PATH

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Samuel,

thank you for the bug report!

* Samuel Thibault wrote on Mon, May 11, 2009 at 03:02:16PM CEST:
> While linking in a msys/mingw32/windows environment, libtool tells me
> 
> *** Warning: linker path does not have real file for library -lfoobar.
[...]

> but the thing is: LIBRARY_PATH does contain libfoobar.a. Setting LDFLAGS
> to "-L/where/libfoobar.a/is" makes the problem go away.  It looks like
> libtool is not taking LIBRARY_PATH into account.  It should.

Indeed.  It could be argued for your case whether you are in a cross
compile situation, but at yes, with non-cross-compile situations,
libtool should take LIBRARY_PATH into account also when looking for
libraries, not only as a variable to be saved for relinking.

If somebody beats me to a patch, be my guest (be sure to add a test
case!).

Cheers,
Ralf