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Re: Suggestion
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Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: |
Re: Suggestion |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Mar 2004 19:56:25 -0600 (CST) |
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Rob Wyrick wrote:
> Libtool doesn't use DESTDIR.... The makefiles (autoconf/automake) use
> DESTDIR.
> When the *.la files are built, libtool puts a line like
> libdir=/some/path/to/a/lib/dir
> in it. Then, when you try to install via 'make install' which, in turn
> call libtool --mode=install
> libtool will refuse to install into any directory EXCEPT what was
> specified in the .la file.
> It breaks, therefore, if you try to use DESTDIR= or prefix= arguments to
> the 'make install'
> command.
What version of libtool are you using? A DESTDIR install certainly
works with the version of libtool that I am using. Libtool does the
install, but it warns that 'libtool --finish' should be used when the
libraries are copied to their intended location.
There was a time when this was not so.
Bob
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