Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 01:01 +0000, Philip Martin wrote: > >> I find the libtool inter-library documentation confusing, but I think this >> is a Debian bug simply because Debian's libtool fails and GNU's libtool >> appears to work. Is there some reason that Debian's libtool is not allowed >> to work the same way as GNU's libtool (rpath perhaps)? I have another >> machine with Debian libtool 1.5.2-1 installed and that doesn't show the >> problem, it works like GNU libtool. >> > The reason is that otherwise if you change the SONAME of a library deep > in the dependency chain (e.g. libpng) you have to recompile *every* > shared library and binary above it -- which in Debian is just about > everything. > > What's going wrong here is that when it links to the intermediate > library (libsvn_ra-1.so) it can find a copy of its dependencies so > checks them for consistency.
As far as I can tell this is going to cause Debian packages of the, as yet unrelease, Subversion 1.2 to fail to build on machines with Subversion 1.1 installed. -- Philip Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]