Re: Spurious warning from libtool when -dlopen self is used, no @PROGRAM@ symbols in final binary

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Makefile.am contains:
>
> bin_PROGRAMS = src/nALFS
> src_nalfs_LDFLAGS = -dlopen self
>
> When configure is given --enable-static --disable-shared, the link of 
> src/nALFS produces this warning:
>
> ./libtool: line 1: src/.libs/src/nALFS.exp: No such file or directory
>
> This comes from line 4296 of the CVS ltmain.in, because there is no 
> "src" directory inside src/.libs. The result is that the program symbols 
> from src/nALFS are not in the preloaded_symbols list because the .exp 
> file is never generated.
>
> Somehow libtool needs to translate "src/nALFS" into a usable filename, 
> not a full path, before trying to create the .exp file with the symbols 
> list. I don't have enough of a clue about the innards of libtool to 
> figure out a patch, hopefully someone else with more knowledge can 
> figure this one out.

Libtool doesn't yet officially support single Makefile.am over multiple 
directories... that is I don't have any such projects to test it with.  Remind 
me of this after 1.6, and I'll start work on it.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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