libtool relink problem

[Jens Finke]

Hi,

I encountered a problem with the libtool 1.4 and the building of the
latest GNOME stuff. The problem is described below.

Does anybody know where I can find the patch mentioned by Owen Taylor? Or
is it already fixed in CVS?

Regards,

  Jens

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 22 Aug 2001 14:59:55 -0400
From: Owen Taylor <address@hidden>
To: Jens Finke <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: GNOME 2.0 libs not DESTDIR safe (?)


Jens Finke <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I came across a general installation problem with at least the glib, pango
> and gtk+ libraries. If you configure these with eg.
>
>   ./configure --prefix=/usr
>
> and after this do a
>
>   make DESTDIR=/var/tmp install
>
> the installation spit out some errors and warnings about relinking
> libraries. The result is that most of the libs get not installed in
> /var/tmp/usr/libs.

This is a libtool problem; it will affect anything using libtool-1.4.
Please take it up with the libtool people.  (Alexander Olivia said
there was some sort of patch for this floating around, but I don't
think had much time to work on libtool recently.)

For the Red Hat GTK+-1.3.x RPMS, we have a hack in the SRPM to remove
the relinking from the libtool used to build.

Regards,
                                        Owen