Bug 54887

Summary: Liking against an archive doesn't work right.
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: hjl
Component: libtoolAssignee: Jens Petersen <petersen>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Description hjl 2001-10-22 18:35:26 UTC 
Liking against an archive doesn't work right when building
a shared library.  For example,

# touch foo.c
# gcc -fPIC -c foo.c
# ar rcvs libfoo.a foo.o
# toiuch bar.c
# gcc -fPIC -c foo.c
# /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link gcc -o -release 1.0 -L. -lfoo.a

will have

dependency_libs='-L..... -lfoo"

in libbar.la . It is complete bogus.
Comment 1 hjl 2001-10-22 18:35:55 UTC 
Created attachment 34582 [details]
A patch
Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2001-10-24 08:06:32 UTC 
Not sure I understand the problem completely, but it seems to me that the
"dependency_libs='-L..... -lfoo'" is caused purely because of the "-L." passed
through libtool to gcc.
What do you think the expected bahaviour should be?
Comment 3 hjl 2001-10-24 14:25:34 UTC 
It is caused by "-L...  -lfoo" and there is libfoo.a, no libfoo.so.
In that case, the stupid tool decides to add

dependency_libs='-L..... -lfoo"

BTW, the libtool people decide to fix it also. See

http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/libtool/2001-October/005697.html
Comment 4 Jens Petersen 2001-11-01 09:52:35 UTC 
Ok. Looks like it needs fixing.  But in order to fix I need to know how to
reproduce it consistently.
Could you give me a working command sequence that reproduces it. I see what
you're saying, but the sequence you originally submitted doesn't work correctly.
Comment 5 hjl 2001-11-01 17:33:22 UTC 
Check out binutils from CVS on sourceware. Make sure you use
--enable-shared on Linux. Look for which libiberty.a is used
for ld. We want libiberty/libiberty.a, not libiberty/pic/libiberty.a.
Yes, I have fixed it in my Linux binutils.
Comment 6 Jens Petersen 2001-12-03 10:52:53 UTC 
Fixed in next rawhide package release.
Comment 7 Jens Petersen 2001-12-10 07:56:06 UTC 
Fixed in libtool-1.4.2-3.
Comment 8 Jens Petersen 2002-02-12 09:14:42 UTC 
Following the thread under
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/libtool-patches/2002-February/001716.html
(Message-ID: <orlme5davr.fsf.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>).
I'm reverting this too in libtool-1.4.2-5.