Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 08:25:25PM -0800, Danek Duvall wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 05:47:06PM -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> What ends up in the runpath here by default, anyway?
>>>>
>>> /usr/lib -- yeah, no runpath should be needed then, right?
>>>
>>> BTW, I needed fix_elf_runpath() because libtool was somehow adding
>>> $SRC/lib/libsqlite3/... to the runpath of libtclsqlite3 (but not to
>>> libsqlite3). Don't ask me why; I don't know why.
>>>
>> Because libtool is a pile. But you also say that /usr/lib ends up there
>> by default, so I'm a bit confused.
>>
>
> You're not kidding. And I'm confused also. I think /usr/lib showed up
> because it was in LD_OPTIONS (but that didn't override whatever libtool
> wanted -- it merged with it). Libtool is turning out to be a nightmare.
>
I'll be generous and simply say that my experience with it hasn't been
particularly favorable.
>
>> You might want to ping Stefan Teleman, as he wrestled against libtool for
>> many weeks in some of the SFW components. I think he managed to win, but I
>> can't remember now how he did it. It'd be nice if we didn't have to resort
>> to elfedit to make these changes, since we *are* building from source,
>> however uncooperative.
>>
>
> OK. And if we could put together a guide for others who might follow,
> then that'd be even better.
>
That is something that I am hoping to break free some time for. I have
been slowly building tools to ease the pain and suffering of integrating
a component and getting the bits right. A while back, I added proto-fix
and install-proto to make it more likely that you could use "cd $(VER) ;
make DESTDIR=$(ROOT) ... install" to install in the proto area instead
of generating an install-sfw script. Unfortunately, generating an
install-sfw script is tedious and error prone. Package generation is
another place that it potentially tedious and error prone. I have a
tool that I have been working on thats not quite ready to integrate, but
generates a reasonable first stab at a package prototype with fairly
sane defaults for attributes of entries. I was hoping to fix a couple
of things in it, like depend file generation, and make it available in
the gate tools directory when I integrate my next wad. And yes, all of
this belongs in a guide to ease everyone's pain and suffering.
-Norm
