Hello Michael, * Michael Haubenwallner wrote on Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 03:52:04PM CEST: > On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 18:20 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > is "no", it doesn't currently work. fast_install is no on HP-UX/PA > > because we don't use nodefaultrpath, IIRC, only on ia64. And IIRC there > > was a conscious decision not to do so on PA, but offhand don't remember > > why. Libtool 1.5.x should be similar here. > > Hmm - this means one cannot do DESTDIR installs on hppa-hpux using > libtool at all yet ?
Yes, that is correct. > > > Thing is, testsuite 25 and 26 result to "expected failure", which really > > > should be "FAIL". > > > > I'm not sure why you think that. The testsuite matches the expected > > behavior of the code, just maybe not the desired one. That's what > > "expected failure"s mean. > > This was because I could not believe that broken DESTDIR install is > intentionally, as this is a basic prerequisite for package managers IMO > to work properly. > > Anyway - are there any plans (or patches already) to get this work ? I would sure love to have this work on more systems. For example, HEAD has this fixed for OpenBSD, while 1.5.x has not. As to HP-UX/PA, if someone could do the research and testing, that would be great. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Bug-libtool mailing list Bug-libtool@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-libtool