Re: libtool chooses the wrong library version to link against

[Andreas Metzler]

Peter O'Gorman <address@hidden> wrote:
> Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> this is about <http://bugs.debian.org/453035>.

>> when I am building gnutls on a system with a different version of
>> gnutls already installed, libtool links the library libgnutls-extra
>> against /usr/lib/libgnutls.so instead of against the correct new
>> version DESTDIR/usr/lib/libgnutls.so.

>> The actual breakage does not happen at build time but at
>> install time - ../lib/libgnutls.la is translated into -lgnutls:
>> -----------------------------
>> libtool: install: warning: relinking `libgnutls-extra.la'
>> (cd /tmp/GNUTLS/gnutls25-2.1.6/libextra; /bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC 
>> --mode=relink cc -std=gnu99 -g -Wall -O2 -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE -pipe 
>> -g -Wall -O2 -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE -Wno-pointer-sign -no-undefined 
>> -L/usr/lib -lopencdk -L/usr/lib -lgcrypt -L/usr/lib -lgpg-error -L/usr/lib 
>> -lnsl -L/usr/lib -lz -version-info 25:1:0 -llzo2 
>> -Wl,--version-script=./libgnutls-extra.vers -o libgnutls-extra.la -rpath 
>> /usr/lib gnutls_extra.lo gnutls_openpgp.lo gnutls_ia.lo 
>> openpgp/libgnutls_openpgp.la ../lgl/liblgnu.la ../lib/libgnutls.la 
>> -inst-prefix-dir /tmp/GNUTLS/gnutls25-2.1.6/debian/tmp/)
[...]
>> -----------------------------

> Do you know where the -L/usr/lib is coming from?

I did not realize they were unusual, I seem to get them for every
single library. - Any hint where I could start digging? Might this be
related to the fact that I am running an i486 installation on a amd64
kernel?
cu andreas
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