libtool: make prefix install fails

[Paul E Johnson]

I'm trying to build RPMS for Swarm (www.swarm.org) on a RH8.0 system.  I 
am having trouble with a problem that is similar to a libtool problem 
that came up almost one year ago and we discussed it in the RPM list as 
well as libtool and Swarm lists.

With libtool 1.4.2, rpm/libtool would fail to build libraries properly 
if the prefix for make install was different from the final install 
prefix and some relinking had to be done. That broke rpm building in 
RH7.2, as I recall. Or was it RH7.1? WHichever was released around 
Nov.2001.  Libtool was patched on November 15, 2001, and I built rpms 
for that patched libtool and since then I had no trouble building rpms 
on RH 7.2 and RH7.3. These are the ones I was using:

http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/software/libtool-20011121-1pj.i386.rpm
http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/software/libtool-libs-20011121-1pj.i386.rpm

I thought this shared library problem was solved then, but now it 
reappears for me in RH8.0.

On RH8.0, I am having trouble building an RPM for the Swarm libraries. I 
get the same thing whether I use the libtool that is distributed with 
RH8.0 or I use the libtool-1.4c edition that I took from their CVS last 
year and built into rpms mentioned above. I can build/install Swarm just 
fine with the regular old configure/make/make install, but if I try to 
build the rpm I get a libtool failure because it can't find libraries 
that are installed in the buildroot.  After the SPEC file dictates this

make prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{prefix} install

That causes the install into /tmp/swarm-root/usr and all the "first 
wave" of libraries (libspace, libactivity, etc) get dumped in there, but 
libtool tries to relink, it fails.  Observe please that it builds 
libspace, copies it into the build root, and then can't find -lspace.

 /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c  libspace.la 
/tmp/swarm-root/usr/lib/swarm/libspace.la
/usr/bin/install -c .libs/libspace.so.2.0.1 
/tmp/swarm-root/usr/lib/swarm/libspace.so.2.0.1
(cd /tmp/swarm-root/usr/lib/swarm && rm -f libspace.so.2 && ln -s 
libspace.so.2.0.1 libspace.so.2)
(cd /tmp/swarm-root/usr/lib/swarm && rm -f libspace.so && ln -s 
libspace.so.2.0.1 libspace.so)
/usr/bin/install -c .libs/libspace.lai 
/tmp/swarm-root/usr/lib/swarm/libspace.la
/usr/bin/install -c .libs/libspace.a 
/tmp/swarm-root/usr/lib/swarm/libspace.a
ranlib /tmp/swarm-root/usr/lib/swarm/libspace.a
chmod 644 /tmp/swarm-root/usr/lib/swarm/libspace.a
libtool: install: warning: remember to run `libtool --finish /usr/lib/swarm'
/bin/sh 
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/mkinstalldirs 
/tmp/swarm-root/usr/include/swarm
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/src/space/space.h 
/tmp/swarm-root/usr/include/swarm/space.h
/bin/sh 
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/mkinstalldirs 
/tmp/swarm-root/usr/include/swarm/space
mkdir /tmp/swarm-root/usr/include/swarm/space
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/src/space/Ca2d.h 
/tmp/swarm-root/usr/include/swarm/space/Ca2d.h
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/src/space/ConwayLife2d.h 
/tmp/swarm-root/usr/include/swarm/space/ConwayLife2d.h
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/src/space/DblBuffer2d.h 
/tmp/swarm-root/usr/include/swarm/space/DblBuffer2d.h
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/src/space/Diffuse2d.h 
/tmp/swarm-root/usr/include/swarm/space/Diffuse2d.h
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/src/space/Discrete2d.h 
/tmp/swarm-root/usr/include/swarm/space/Discrete2d.h
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/src/space/Grid2d.h 
/tmp/swarm-root/usr/include/swarm/space/Grid2d.h
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/src/space/Int2dFiler.h 
/tmp/swarm-root/usr/include/swarm/space/Int2dFiler.h
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/src/space/Object2dDisplay.h 
/tmp/swarm-root/usr/include/swarm/space/Object2dDisplay.h
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/src/space/Value2dDisplay.h 
/tmp/swarm-root/usr/include/swarm/space/Value2dDisplay.h
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/=with-hdf/src/space'
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/=with-hdf/src/space'
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/=with-hdf/src'
make[3]: Entering directory 
`/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/=with-hdf/src'
/bin/sh 
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/mkinstalldirs 
/tmp/swarm-root/usr/lib/swarm
 /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c  libswarm.la 
/tmp/swarm-root/usr/lib/swarm/libswarm.la
libtool: install: warning: relinking `libswarm.la'
cd 
/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/=with-hdf/src; 
/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=relink gcc -g -
O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -Wall -Wno-import -Wno-protocol -Werror 
-Wno-unknown-pragmas -o libswarm.la -version-info 0:0:0 -rp
ath /usr/lib/swarm -Lspace -Lanalysis -Lsimtoolsgui -Lsimtools -Lrandom 
-Ltkobjc -Ltclobjc -Lobjectbase -Lactivity -Ldefobj -
Lcollections -Lmisc -L../libobjc -L/usr/lib -R /usr/lib -L/usr/lib -R 
/usr/lib -L/usr/lib -R /usr/lib -L/usr/lib -R /usr/lib
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -R /usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib SwarmEnvironment.lo 
-lspace -lanalysis -lsimtoolsgui -lsimtools -lrandom
-ltkobjc -ltclobjc -lobjectbase -lactivity -ldefobj -lcollections -lmisc 
-lobjc -lBLT24 -ltk8.3 -ltcl8.3 -lXpm -lpng -lhdf5 -
lz ../avcall/libavcall.la -lX11 -lm -ldl
gcc -shared  SwarmEnvironment.lo -Wl,--whole-archive 
../avcall/.libs/libavcall.al -Wl,--no-whole-archive  -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/us
r/lib/swarm -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/lib -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/X11R6/lib 
-L/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.1
40.20020514/=with-hdf/src/space 
-L/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/=with-hdf/src/analysis 
-L/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/=with-hdf/src/simtoolsgui 
-L/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/=with-hdf/src/simtools 
-L/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514
/=with-hdf/src/random 
-L/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/=with-hdf/src/tkobjc 
-L/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/=with-hdf/src/tclobjc 
-L/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/=with-hdf/src/objectbase 
-L/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/=with-hdf/src
/activity 
-L/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/=with-hdf/src/defobj 
-L/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/=with-hdf/src/collections 
-L/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/=with-hdf/src/misc 
-L/home/pauljohn/LinuxDownloads/redhat/BUILD/swarm-2.1.140.20020514/=with-hdf/libobjc 
-L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/lib/swarm -lspace -lanalysis 
-lsimtoolsgui -lsimtools -lrandom -ltkobjc -ltclobjc -lobjectbase -lac
tivity -ldefobj -lcollections -lmisc -lobjc -lBLT24 -ltk8.3 -ltcl8.3 
-lXpm -lpng -lhdf5 -lz ../avcall/.libs/libavcall.al -lX1
1 -lm -ldl                -Wl,-soname -Wl,libswarm.so.0 -o 
.libs/libswarm.so.0.0.0
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lspace
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
libtool: install: error: relink `libswarm.la' with the above command 
before installing it
libtool: install: warning: remember to run `libtool --finish /usr/lib/swarm'


I'm completely bewildered, and would beg for any help anybody can give.

There is an even more ghastly aspect of this problem that was just 
brought to my attention. If an old version of Swarm is installed on the 
system, then libtool will find it and relink against that, thus 
defeating the purpose of building the new library. That's really awful!


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