RPATH vs. libtool 2.2

[Dan Nicholson]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Dan Nicholson wrote:
>> In my testing, it doesn't seem to work with multilib on newer libtool.
>> For linux, it guesses that the runtime default search path is /lib and
>> /usr/lib and then adds stuff it finds in /etc/ld.so.conf. For the
>> fedora libtool-1.5* packages, there is a patch to handle this:
>>
>>http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/libtool/F-10/libtool-1.5.24-multilib.patch?view=markup
>>
>> However, it's not applied for libtool-2.2*, and I don't see it being
>> handled upstream.
>
> I guess it's not being applied because the upstream libtool authors loudly
> claimed it's no longer necessary. :-(
>
> Please file a high-priority bug against libtool in Fedora to get the patch
> reapplied, and also complain loudly to upstream about them *still* failing
> to support multilib.

I'll see what I can do. What is handled is that adding -L/usr/lib64
should not happen when linking. This is because libtool checks where
the compiler will look for libraries on it's own and avoid those.

--
Dan