Description of problem: When building shared libraries using libtool --mode=link g++ -o foo.la ...objects... -rpath somedir libtool attempts to reference to the crti files living in /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.1/. This doesn't work, since both gcc and g++ have been updated to versions 3.4.2 since the last update of libtool. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libtool-1.5.6-4 How reproducible: In a convenient FC3 shell and an empty directory Type: libtool --mode=link g++ -o fred.la fred.o -rpath /lib Watch the diagnostics to see that the wrong paths are referenced Actual results: Expected results: Well, I definitely don't expect that command to work, since there isn't any fred.o, but making reference to a bad path definitely wasn't the expected failure mode. :-) Additional info: I rebuilt libtool locally by hand from the SRPM, deinstalled the fedora-supplied binary rpm and installed my newly built version. This "solved" the problem, so it looks like the existing libtool package may simply need to be
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 143889 ***