Re: bug in libtool rpath setting for _LT_AC_TAGVAR(hardcode_libdir_flag_spec, $1) (libtool 1.5.22)

[James Andrewartha]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> * James Andrewartha wrote on Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 12:53:32AM CET:
>>
>> The stable libtool release has a bug in libtool.m4 that sets
>> _LT_AC_TAGVAR(hardcode_libdir_flag_spec, $1) to '${wl}--rpath ${wl}$libdir'
>> by default instead of '${wl}-rpath ${wl}$libdir' (one less -). This causes
>> the build failure seen at
>> http://jhbuild.bxlug.be/builds/2006-12-12-0005/logs/evolution-data-server/#build
>>
>> This was fixed in the development release two years ago:
>
> Yes, but we never knew or thought it was a necessity, we fixed it for
> consistency only, thinking that ld accepts both -rpath and --rpath:
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2004-11/msg00039.html>
>
> And if you look closer at the build log, you'll find earlier link
> command lines that succeed with --rpath.  So the failure is of a
> different nature, but it does look like it could be a libtool bug.
> Where are libnss3.so, libsmime3.so, libssl3.so, and libsoftokn3.so
> located?  Could you rerun 'make' non-parallel so we see which link
> is actually failing?

They're located in 
/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/build-output/lib/xulrunner-1.8.1.1
which is included via -L. pkg-config --libs xulrunner-nspr returns:
-L/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/build-output/lib/xulrunner-1.8.1.1 
-lplds4 -lplc4 -lnspr4 -lpthread -ldl

failing build:
make[4]: Entering directory 
`/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/cvs/evolution-data-server/addressbook/backends/groupwise'
/bin/sh ../../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc  -O2 -Wall 
-Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-strict-aliasing -Wno-format -Wno-cast-align -
Wall -Wmissing-prototypes  -Wno-sign-compare   -o create-account 
create-account.o ../../../addressbook/libedata-book/libedata-book-1.2.la 
../../../libedataserver/libedataserver-1.2.la 
../../../servers/groupwise/libegroupwise-1.2.la -pthread 
-L/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/build-output/lib 
-L/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/build-output/lib/xulrunner-1.8.1.1 
-lxml2 -lbonobo-2 -lbonobo-activation -lgmodule-2.0 -lgconf-2 -lORBit-2 
-lgthread-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lplds4 -lplc4 -lnspr4 -lpthread 
-ldl   -lpthread
gcc -O2 -Wall -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-strict-aliasing -Wno-format 
-Wno-cast-align -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wno-sign-compare -o 
.libs/create-account create-account.o -pthread 
../../../addressbook/libedata-book/.libs/libedata-book-1.2.so 
../../../libedataserver/.libs/libedataserver-1.2.so 
../../../servers/groupwise/.libs/libegroupwise-1.2.so 
-L/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/build-output/lib 
-L/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/build-output/lib/xulrunner-1.8.1.1 
/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/build-output/lib/libxml2.so 
/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/build-output/lib/libbonobo-2.so 
/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/build-output/lib/libbonobo-activation.so 
/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/build-output/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so 
/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/build-output/lib/libgconf-2.so 
/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/build-output/lib/libORBit-2.so 
/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/build-output/lib/libgthread-2.0.so 
/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/build-output/lib/libgobject-2.0.so 
/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/build-output/lib/libglib-2.0.so 
-lplds4 -lplc4 -lnspr4 -ldl -lpthread -Wl,--rpath 
-Wl,/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/build-output/lib
/usr/bin/ld: warning: libnss3.so, needed by 
/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/cvs/evolution-data-server/camel/.libs/libcamel-1.2.so.0,
 
not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
/usr/bin/ld: warning: libsmime3.so, needed by 
/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/cvs/evolution-data-server/camel/.libs/libcamel-1.2.so.0,
 
not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
/usr/bin/ld: warning: libssl3.so, needed by 
/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/cvs/evolution-data-server/camel/.libs/libcamel-1.2.so.0,
 
not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
/usr/bin/ld: warning: libsoftokn3.so, needed by 
/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/cvs/evolution-data-server/camel/.libs/libcamel-1.2.so.0,
 
not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/cvs/evolution-data-server/camel/.libs/libcamel-1.2.so.0:
 
undefined reference to address@hidden'
/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/cvs/evolution-data-server/camel/.libs/libcamel-1.2.so.0:
 
undefined reference to address@hidden'
/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/cvs/evolution-data-server/camel/.libs/libcamel-1.2.so.0:
 
undefined reference to address@hidden'
/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/cvs/evolution-data-server/camel/.libs/libcamel-1.2.so.0:
 
undefined reference to address@hidden'
/scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/cvs/evolution-data-server/camel/.libs/libcamel-1.2.so.0:
 
undefined reference to address@hidden'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

> Could you post
>  ./libtool --config
>
> for the libtool script generated by the build, from the
> /scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/cvs/evolution-data-server directory?

# Libtool was configured on host mudhead:

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# Whether or not to build shared libraries.
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# Whether or not to disallow shared libs when runtime libs are static
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# The host system.
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host=alphaev68-unknown-linux-gnu
host_os=linux-gnu

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build=alphaev68-unknown-linux-gnu
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# An echo program that does not interpret backslashes.
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# Compiler flag to generate shared objects directly from archives.
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\${libname}\${release}\${shared_ext}\$major \$libname\${shared_ext}"

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/usr/lib/gcc/alpha-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../alpha-linux-gnu/lib/ 
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> Also interesting would be (bzip2'ed) log of
>
>  cd /scratch/gnometinderbox/jhautobuild/cvs/evolution-data-server/camel
>  rm libcamel-1.2.la
>  make libcamel-1.2.la LIBTOOL='../libtool --debug'
>
> and similar for the link that is actually failing.

Attatched.

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