Re: Mysterious Dependencies

[Bob Friesenhahn]

This is due to a GCC bug that I reported long ago.  GCC's libtool (GCC 
has its own version of libtool) inserts references to its build 
directory in the .la files installed alongside the libraries it 
installs.

Bob

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Eric Lemings wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On RedHat AS 4u2, Libtool is putting the following line in my .la files.
>
> dependency_libs=' -ldl
> /amd/packages/mdx/redhat/compilers/gcc-3.4.4-2/bin/../lib/gcc/i386-redhat-li
> nux/3.4.4//libstdc++.la
> -L/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/gcc-3.4.4-20050721/obj-i386-redhat-linux/i386-redhat
> -linux/libstdc++-v3/src
> -L/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/gcc-3.4.4-20050721/obj-i386-redhat-linux/i386-redhat
> -linux/libstdc++-v3/src/.libs
> -L/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/gcc-3.4.4-20050721/obj-i386-redhat-linux/gcc '
>
> Everything after '-ldl' does not exist in RHAS 4u2 (at least on the system
> I am using).  So where is Libtool getting all this stuff from and why is it
> putting it in there if none of it exists?  And is there a way to make it
> look
> like this (without manually editing the file)?
>
> dependency_libs=' -ldl -lstdc++ '

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