Re: Bugreport: Incorrect forwarding of a shared library's -R flags when this library is linked to an executable

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Stefan Muller wrote:

> Bob,
> Thanks for your reply. However, I downloading the official FSF version of 
> libtool from
>
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.2.6b.tar.gz
>
> is what I tried first. I compiled from sources and installed the official 
> libtool in /usr/local,
> which overrides the ubuntu installation in /usr. Below is the diff of the two 
> versions of ltmain.sh -
> both versions have the "-R*) ;;" line (#6002 and #6005, respectively), which 
> makes my executables
> link incorrectly.

Ahhh, I see.  I was confused by thinking that the comment with all the 
exclamation marks was in your copy.  It looked like a smoking gun, but 
was not.

Now that you have your hands on "official" versions, have you tested 
to see if your executables link correctly with the official versions?

Regardless of what OS maintainers do for their own purposes, it seems 
wise to always use official FSF versions for any package which gets 
distributed to a broader audience.

Bob
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