On Wed, Jun 27, 2007, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > [...] > 2. Although we finally have a sophisticated way to link against > the third-party libraries, we still have a related problem: the > internal copies of third-party libraries are linked differently > against RPM. "db" is packed directly into "librpmdb.la", "lua" by > accident is packed into "librpm.la", etc. All not consistent and > hence confusing and on some platforms even causing problems (Jeff > for instance got failures with the Lua linking). > > Here I've to investigate, too. I'm still not sure what the best > approach is, but it should be clear that although the local copies of > third-party libraries are not explicitly _installed_ (as libdb.la, > liblua.la, etc) their _content_ has to be installed in some way or > our librpm*.la are useless in practice. The approach of librpmdb.la > to include libdb.la seems to be a ticky and acceptable solution > although it has to be done for _all_ libraries and perhaps the > third-party stuff should be grouped together (perhaps even in the new > librpmmisc.la which is some sort of a container for remaining and > dynamically selected stuff anyway). I'll look what I can do for us...
After many hours thinking backward and forward, poking around in Automake documentation and performing stand-alone tests under FreeBSD 6 and Fedora 7 I finally think I've found a both clean, straight-forward and still fully portable solution to this mess. Berkeley-DB is now handled equally to all other internal third-party libs like Lua, File and ZLib and installed via a central bundling into librpmmisc. And the build-environment now no longer mixes the build flags of external and internal libraries (what caused the initial build problems for Jeff after RPM_CHECK_LIB was introduced). See http://rpm5.org/cvs/chngview?cn=7558 for details. I was now again able to cleanly build and install and test-run RPM 5 under FreeBSD 6 and Fedora 7 under both --enable-shared and --disable-shared and with and without a mixture of internal and external libraries. Under FreeBSD 6 I mostly built with --disable-shared and with dozend of uninstalled external libraries while under Fedora 7 I used system-installed versions for all the external libraries and built RPM with --enable-shared. Everything wors fine (again) now -- but this time we have a larger bunch of nasty hacks less in the build environment and a lot of new flexibility as my different tests under FreeBSD 6 and Fedora 7 show ;-) Ralf S. Engelschall [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.engelschall.com ______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org Developer Communication List rpm-devel@rpm5.org
