Re: Fwd: from debian-mentors: libtool relink fails due overriden prefix

[Assar Westerlund]

"Wesley W. Terpstra" <address@hidden> writes:
> I know you people don't care at all about debian packaging, but thought that
> perhaps libtool has a mechanism for dealing with situations like this. 

It might have or it might just be that I misunderstand your problem or
the exact details of how packing in debian is supposed to work.

> However, when packaging a library one often doesn't actually install straight
> onto the root filesystem. In this case, I want the libraries to have exactly
> the same bytes as if they'd be installed right into the root filesystem with
> all the associated symlinks, etc.

I do think that this should be performed with DESTDIR, and not as well
with resetting prefix during `make install'.

> So, this system is ideal for make, debug, make install. However, the debian
> build cycle has one twist that breaks libtool: make, make
> prefix=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr install.

Cannot this be changed to make DESTDIR=`pwd'/debian/tmp install ?

To make sure things are concrete enough I wiped up a little example
that I think shows what you're trying to do.  It's at
<http://www.sics.se/~assar/libtool/foo-0.0.tar.gz>.  And doing:

configure --prefix=/tmp/prefix
make install DESTDIR=/tmp/destdir

gets me a binary in /tmp/destdir/tmp/prefix/bin/hepp that refers to
the libraries in /tmp/prefix/lib.

/assar