Re: Bug in generation of static link lines for three specific libraries

2007-05-17 Thread Noah Misch
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:56:54PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Noah Misch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > This `.la' file tells Libtool that there is no static library, even > > though there is one. Either the Libtool that generated this library > > was buggy, or something edited the file after Libto

Re: Bug in generation of static link lines for three specific libraries

2007-05-17 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Noah Misch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This `.la' file tells Libtool that there is no static library, even > though there is one. Either the Libtool that generated this library > was buggy, or something edited the file after Libtool wrote it. Identical misbehavior was reported in 2004 on a Red Hat sys

Re: Bug in generation of static link lines for three specific libraries

2007-05-17 Thread Noah Misch
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:44:33PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > # Names of this library. > library_names='libglib-2.0.so.0.1200.4 libglib-2.0.so.0 libglib-2.0.so' > > # The name of the static archive. > old_library='' This `.la' file tells Libtool that there is no static library, even though t

Re: Bug in generation of static link lines for three specific libraries

2007-05-17 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Noah Misch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It looks like the system integrator built these libraries with > --disable-shared. Do any of /usr/lib/libg{module,thread,lib}-2.0.a > exist? If so, please post the contents of /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.la. They do exist. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /usr/lib/libg{module,

Re: Bug in generation of static link lines for three specific libraries

2007-05-17 Thread Noah Misch
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:50:34AM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Somewhere deep inside either the libtool/autotools/automake toolchain, > there appears to be a bug relating to generation of command-line references > for three specific static libraries. Libtool is responsible for the behavior you

Bug in generation of static link lines for three specific libraries

2007-05-17 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Somewhere deep inside either the libtool/autotools/automake toolchain, there appears to be a bug relating to generation of command-line references for three specific static libraries. Furthermore, this bug has apparently existed since at least 2004. Here is a generated command line from an attemp