Problem in ".la" file

[Alexandre Tolmos]

Hi

I'm working on the MacOS X (10.2.6) port of the OpenC++ project which  
uses Hans Boehm's garbage collector (GC 6.2) and GNU Libtool (1.5).

When building static versions of the garbage collector (libgc.a) and  
OpenC++ (libocc.a) a problem occurs during the generation of the  
"libocc.la" file:

# libocc.la - a libtool library file
# Generated by ltmain.sh - GNU libtool 1.5 (1.1220 2003/04/05 19:32:58)
#
# Please DO NOT delete this file!
# It is necessary for linking the library.

# The name that we can dlopen(3).
dlname=''

# Names of this library.
library_names=''

# The name of the static archive.
old_library='libocc.a'

# Libraries that this one depends upon.
dependency_libs=' -ldl /Users/ktulu/Projects/OpenC++/gc/libgc.la  
-lpthread  '

# Version information for libocc.
current=0
age=0
revision=0

# Is this an already installed library?
installed=no

# Should we warn about portability when linking against -modules?
shouldnotlink=no

# Files to dlopen/dlpreopen
dlopen=''
dlpreopen=''

# Directory that this library needs to be installed in:
libdir='/usr/local/lib'


The string assigned to the "dependency_libs" variable makes the test  
suite fail because this string is passed as an argument list to the  
Gcc. Should not the string be "-ldl -lgc.a -lpthread" instead ?

I had the same problem with Libtool 1.4.2; upgrading to version 1.5 had  
no effect. The OpenC++ package was configured using "configure  
--enable-shared=no" because the Gc sub-package builds a shared library  
otherwise.

Since I don't know much about how Libtool works I wonder if this a  
Libtool bug or an Autoconf/Automake configuration problem in the  
OpenC++ package itself.

Any help is welcome.

Thanks.

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