Re: what do these warnings mean: library.la was moved...

[Ed Hartnett]

Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, 5 May 2008, Ed Hartnett wrote:
>
>> Howdy all!
>>
>> Sometimes I get these warnings (see below), and I don't really get
>> what libtool is trying to tell me...
>
> It means that your hdf5 library was originally installed into a
> different directory path and then the installation was moved/copied to
> the place it is now.  There is a warning since the content of the .la
> file may no longer be correct.  The .la file is just a text file so
> you can take a look at what is inside and even edit it to fix the
> installation paths.

But I'm pretty sure that I didn't move any library.

Also, I believe that library is a static library anyway, so what
difference would it make?

What may have happened in that the HDF5 library was installed in two
places, and someone is getting confused... (i.e. me.)

> It is popular to use DESTDIR to redirect installation to a temporary
> directory.  On some systems, this does not cause a difference but on
> others the libraries should be relinked to reflect their final
> location.  Libtool's --mode=finish is used to fix up libraries that
> need to be registered in their final resting place.
>

When I installed the HDF5 library and I didn't use DESTDIR, just the
--prefix option to configure.

Thanks for the help!

Ed

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