Hi! I'm tracking down what I believe is a libtool bug, or possibly a libtool documentation issue. In libssh2, a shared library, we have a "hello world" kind of self test that just invokes the library init/done function. The self test is linked to libssh2. The Makefile.am to build it is:
AM_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_srcdir)/include AM_LDFLAGS = -no-install LDADD = ../src/libssh2.la ctests = simple TESTS = $(ctests) check_PROGRAMS = $(ctests) Building this on Mac OS X fails to produce a binary 'simple' that works. It fails to run because it cannot find the shared library. The relevant output is: make[2]: Nothing to be done for `check-am'. making check in tests make simple gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../src -I../include -DLIBSSH2_DARWIN -I/ usr/include -I/usr/include -MT simple.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/simple.Tpo - c -o simple.o simple.c mv -f .deps/simple.Tpo .deps/simple.Po /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -DLIBSSH2_DARWIN -I/ usr/include -I/usr/include -no-install -L/usr/lib -lcrypto -L/usr/lib -lz -o simple simple.o ../src/libssh2.la mkdir .libs gcc -DLIBSSH2_DARWIN -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -o simple simple.o -L/usr/lib ../src/.libs/libssh2.dylib -lcrypto -lz make check-TESTS dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libssh2.1.dylib Referenced from: /Users/daniel/Desktop/libssh2/tests/./simple Reason: image not found FAIL: simple The documentation for -no-install is: `-no-install' Link an executable OUTPUT-FILE that can't be installed and therefore doesn't need a wrapper script. Useful if the program is only used in the build tree, e.g., for testing or generating other files. I believe that -no-install should have added a '-Wl,-rpath ../src/.libs/' to the gcc command when building 'simple'. Then the binary would have found its shared library. Such a binary should not be installed, with the library paths to the build tree in it, but that's the point of -no-install. See the original report in: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.ssh.libssh2.devel/221 The libtool version used is 1.5.22. Thanks, Simon _______________________________________________ Bug-libtool mailing list Bug-libtool@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-libtool