Bug 16381

there is no way to pass options directly to libtool!
I want to  pass options to configure and have libtool get them.
Here I tried '-all-static' as a LDFLAGS and  configure tries to run GCC with 
that option.  The result is failure early in the code.  Let me 
have some LIBTOOL_LINK LIBTOOL_COMPILE options to configure.

checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 -all-static) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot
create executables.
Bad exit status from /data1/builds/1/BUILD/rpm-tmp.14121 (%build)

It is very difficutl to remove the zlib and db lib shared library dependencies
on solaris. 

1) Just compiling using the defaults leaves me with dependenciecs on
these libraries.

2) I can not put them on the libtool link line, because that is an error


res03$ /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link gcc  -Wall -O2  -o libpopt.la -rpath
/usr/local/lib  popt.lo findme.lo poptparse.lo poptconfig.lo popthelp.lo 
-L/usr/ucblib -R /usr/ucblib /usr/lib/libz.a /usr/local/lib/libdb-3.1.a  
libtool: link: cannot build libtool library `libpopt.la' from non-libtool
objects: /usr/lib/libz.a /usr/local/lib/libdb-3.1.a


3) If I add '-all-static' to LDFLAGS I get an error:

make LDFLAGS="-all-static"

/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc  -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wall -Wpointer-arith
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wno-char-subscripts -all-static -o
dump  dump.o ../build/librpmbuild.la   ../lib/librpm.la       
../rpmio/librpmio.la    ../popt/libpopt.la       
mkdir .libs
gcc -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wno-char-subscripts -static -o dump dump.o
../build/.libs/librpmbuild.a ../lib/.libs/librpm.a -ldb-3.1
../rpmio/.libs/librpmio.a -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/ucblib -lnsl -lsocket -lz
../popt/.libs/libpopt.a -R/usr/local/lib -R/usr/ucblib -R/usr/local/lib
-R/usr/ucblib
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
dlclose                             /usr/lib/libnsl.a(netdir.o)
stpcpy                              ../rpmio/.libs/librpmio.a(rpmio.o)
dlsym                               /usr/lib/libnsl.a(netdir.o)
dlopen                              /usr/lib/libnsl.a(netdir.o)
dlerror  stpcpy                              ../rpmio/.libs/librpmio.a(rpmio.o)
dlsym                               /usr/lib/libnsl.a(netdir.o)
dlopen                              /usr/lib/libnsl.a(netdir.o)
dlerror                             /usr/lib/libnsl.a(netdir.o)
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to dump
make[2]: *** [dump] Error 1
                           /usr/lib/libnsl.a(netdir.o)

3) If I add '-static' to LDFLAGS I get an error:

make LDFLAGS="-static"

/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc  -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wall -Wpointer-arith
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wno-char-subscripts -static -o dump 
dump.o ../build/librpmbuild.la       ../lib/librpm.la       
../rpmio/librpmio.la    ../popt/libpopt.la       
mkdir .libs
gcc -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wno-char-subscripts -o dump dump.o
../build/.libs/librpmbuild.a ../lib/.libs/librpm.a -ldb-3.1
../rpmio/.libs/librpmio.a -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/ucblib -lnsl -lsocket -lz
../popt/.libs/libpopt.a -R/usr/local/lib -R/usr/ucblib -R/usr/local/lib
-R/usr/ucblib
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
stpcpy                              ../rpmio/.libs/librpmio.a(rpmio.o)
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to dump


4) If I use 

make LDFLAGS="'-Wl,-Bstatic'"


/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc  -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wall -Wpointer-arith
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wno-char-subscripts '-Wl,-Bstatic' -o
dump  dump.o ../build/librpmbuild.la        ../lib/librpm.la       
../rpmio/librpmio.la    ../popt/libpopt.la       
mkdir .libs
gcc -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wno-char-subscripts -Wl,-Bstatic -o .libs/dump dump.o
../build/.libs/librpmbuild.so ../lib/.libs/librpm.so -ldb-3.1
../rpmio/.libs/librpmio.so -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/ucblib -lnsl -lsocket -lz
../popt/.libs/libpopt.so -R/usr/local/lib -R/usr/ucblib
ld: fatal: input of shared object `../build/.libs/librpmbuild.so' in static mode
ld: fatal: input of shared object `../lib/.libs/librpm.so' in static mode
ld: fatal: input of shared object `../rpmio/.libs/librpmio.so' in static mode
ld: fatal: input of shared object `../popt/.libs/libpopt.so' in static mode
ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to .libs/dump
make[2]: *** [dump] Error 1

If I try to put the shared libraries within a -B block like this 

CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" \
	./configure --prefix=%{__prefix}

make lib_LTLIBRARIES="-Wl,-Bstatic -librpm.la -Wl,-Bdynamic"  mylibs="-lrpm
-lrpmio -lpopt  -L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib  -L/usr/ucblib -R/usr/ucblib 
-lnsl -lsocket -Wl,-Bstatic -lz -Wl,-Bdynamic  $(top_builddir)/misc/libmisc.a"



I get these errors from make:

/opt/gnu/bin/msgfmt -o zh.mo zh.po
/opt/gnu/bin/msgfmt -o zh_CN.GB2312.mo zh_CN.GB2312.po
make[4]: Leaving directory `/data1/builds/1/BUILD/rpm-4.0/popt/po'
make[4]: Entering directory `/data1/builds/1/BUILD/rpm-4.0/popt'
make[4]: *** No rule to make target `-Wl,-Bstatic', needed by `all-am'.  Stop.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/data1/builds/1/BUILD/rpm-4.0/popt'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/data1/builds/1/BUILD/rpm-4.0/popt'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/data1/builds/1/BUILD/rpm-4.0/popt'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/data1/builds/1/BUILD/rpm-4.0'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
Bad exit status from /data1/builds/1/BUILD/rpm-tmp.13848 (%build)

OK I see that my earlier comment about -rpath for libtool was wrong. 

 HOWEVER there really is a problem here that I can not choose to link against
the static versions of the db or z library.  I want rpm not to load those.
Currently I have gone for an RPATH solution but I believe that rpm MUST 
allow me to link against the .a files of my chose.  This may be a bug in
libtool or in the automake makefiles or in configure.  You figure out
how you will allow me to do this, I just want a documented and supported
solution.  This bug ticket shows all my failures,  I tried all the obvious
things.

This bug is very old and deals with RPM build stuff - if you are still having an
issue please consider discussion on rpm-devel list and at your option reopen
against a more recent version of RPM


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