Re: Compiling into chroot

[Roumen Petrov]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> > After installing I want to perform:
> > chroot /tmp/device-root /bin/whatever
> >
> > And continue from there.
> > So all elements (linkage, .la) should be related to the chroot and not
> > to host filesystem.
>
> Why not just add a /tmp/device-root symbolic link to '/' in your 
> chrooted space?  Then everything will be happy.
>
> The alternative is to use a script to update all of the installed .la 
> files to use the new paths.
>
> This is not libtool's problem.
>
> Bob
> ======================================
> Bob Friesenhahn
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> GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

It look like an enhancement request. libtool to obey as example 
FAKEROOT=/tmp/device-root and to look first in $FAKEROOT/path1
, ... and $FAKEROOT/pathN and later in /path1,... and /pathN .

Roumen