On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 01:33:46AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Scott James Remnant writes: > > On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 02:48 -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > > > > then libtool should be fixed. there is no documented requirement that > > > the path has to be normalized. > > > > > While there's no specifically documented requirement, there is a common > > sense one. Libtool doesn't make any attempt to normalise the paths > > given to it, in fact it's kinda a tricky issue ... for example: > > > > If you used -rpath /usr/mylib and that was a symlink to /usr/lib, would > > you expect that to be RPATHd or not? > > no that's another issue. independently of symlinks things should be > transformed from /usr/lib/. to /usr/lib, /usr/lib/../lib to /usr/lib > > I see these kind of pathes generated by the biarch setups for gcc, but > cannot actually tell, how to avoid them.
You basically can't. -- Daniel Jacobowitz