From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Description of problem: Some packages, like musicbrainz or gstreamer-player, seems to build losing the 'so' extension on libraries. This is using the automake 1.7-7 in Severn. Downgrading to automake-1.6-3 from RH9 makes things work right again. I would think there is a bug in automake 1.7? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. download mdk musicbrainz SRPM 2. fix SPEC to work for RH (just replace %mklibname with a hardcoded one) 3. build package to see issue Actual Results: all files which where supposed to have a .so* suffix get none or just the so number as prefix. Expected Results: na Additional info: attaching the srpm I am using to this bugreport
Created attachment 94804 [details] Package that exposes the problem
When I try to build with automake-1.6.3-5 or automake16, adding: export AUTOMAKE=automake-1.6 export ACLOCAL=aclocal-1.6 before %configure, I get the same result as with automake-1.7. This is the first report I have seen of this. Are you sure it's not a libmusicbrainz problem? I recommend asking on the bug-automake or automake lists too.
This sounds a little too bizarre to have been missed for so long. Please re-open if you are still able to reproduce. Thanks.