If you build a package with --prefix=/usr and that package has interdependencies among it's shared libraries (like guile and heimdal), libtool will no longer allow you to install to a temporary directory via
make DESTDIR=`pwd`/foo install libtool 1.4 allowed this, but as of at least 1.4.2, it doesn't. This makes it very difficult, if not impossible to package programs using libtool for systems like debian that require creating a local install from which the package is generated. See http://bugs.debian.org/libtool, bugs 57087 and 98342. I believe this may have been discussed here at some point in the past, but I just wanted to check and make sure that the current developers were still aware of the problem, and if so, see if there were plans to fix it. I also wanted to see if anyone had suggestions for a fix, even a temporary one. There's a patch in the debian package that seems to fix the problem for some people, but still doesn't work for other package like guile and heimdal. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG=1C58 8B2C FB5E 3F64 EA5C 64AE 78FE E5FE F0CB A0AD _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
