Re: libtool 1.5.8 on Solaris 8

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Are the gcc folks aware of this gotcha?

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Carlo Wood wrote:
> 
>>
>> It might be that one of the libraries that you are using
>> thinks that it needs it (is specifically asking for it).
>> The first thing you should do is to find out which library
>> thinks that it depends on /usr/local/lib/./libstdc++.so (if any).
> 
> 
> The libstdc++.la file produced by GCC has been broken ever since GCC
> started libtool.  It includes a bunch of junk it should not.  The most
> annoying junk refers to the GCC build directory so that applications
> linked with libstdc++.la attempt to use files from the GCC build
> directory rather than the installed versions.  If the GCC build
> directory is not removed after installing the compiler, very strange
> problems result.
> 
> I usually see the "duplicated" library warning for libstdc++.so when
> linking under Solaris.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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