Bug 83081 – libtool produces .la files without leading '/' for some dependencies

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2005-02-23 09:10:32 UTC]

For some reason references of .la's in dependency_libs of other .la's do not
have a starting '/' to their path names - for example:

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 # grep '[^/]usr/lib' /usr/lib/libbonoboui-2.la
dependency_libs=' usr/lib/libgnomecanvas-2.la /usr/lib/libgtk...... '
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This could either be an after effect of Xorg's libGL.la, etc that had a
broken libdir='usr/lib', or it might be something to do with libtool itself.

Current fix is to run:

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 # find /usr/lib/ -name '*.la' -print | xargs -n50 grep -rl '[^/]usr/lib'
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and then manually fix listed files.

[Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2005-02-23 09:11:05 UTC]

*** Bug 81483 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2005-02-23 09:11:09 UTC]

*** Bug 79713 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2005-02-23 09:13:01 UTC]

PS: can everybody with issues include the list from command in the description?

[Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2005-02-23 09:29:12 UTC]

Ok, added libtool-1.5.10-r5 and updated the elibtoolize patch to verify that we
do have a leading '/' if we need to replace '/'.  Note that this will not fix
the issue, but prevent future issues like this if this is the problem.

[Comment 5 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2005-02-23 10:49:51 UTC]

*** Bug 82601 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 6 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2005-02-23 10:50:42 UTC]

*** Bug 82935 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 7 Christopher Rude 2005-02-23 23:15:27 UTC]

find /usr/lib/ -name '*.la' -print | xargs -n50 grep -rl '[^/]usr/lib' resulted in the following:
/usr/lib/libgnomevfs.la --- new during world rebuild, manualy fixed it now thanks :)

had already manulally fixed before my current inprogress rebuild of world (I had logged these as an attachement in bug 8201.
/usr/lib/libgstcontrol-0.8.la
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.8.la
/usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.la
/usr/lib/libhal-storage.la
/usr/lib/libhal.la
/usr/lib/liboaf.la
/usr/lib/libpopt.la


hope this helps, and thanks for your quick reponse :)

[Comment 8 foser (RETIRED) 2005-02-24 05:24:21 UTC]

*** Bug 83147 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 9 genbug 2005-02-25 05:58:27 UTC]

Well I see this is marked as fixed now which is great news.
Trouble my portage is still broken .

It seems nothing is propagating to fix what is already out there and broken , and , sorry to seem dumb that bit of cryptic hyroglypics just shows up two files from libonobo that do not seen to relate in any way to my breakage.

I have the same issue in libgnomeui failing on gnomelib.la

Could some kind sole explain what I should fix and how?

TIA

[Comment 10 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2005-02-25 10:42:46 UTC]

Well, do the find/grep command, and then edit the files showing to include the
leading '/' for paths missing.

[Comment 11 SpanKY 2005-04-10 15:33:16 UTC]

should be all set now thanks to az