Description of problem: Linking statically with libacl-devel fails. This happens when building KDE from sources using Konstruct (which uses libtool) . The problem seems to come from a wrong 'libdir' entry in libacl.la (/usr/lib64/libacl.la in out case) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): acl-2.2.23-5 libacl-2.2.23-5 libacl-devel-2.2.23-5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Build static libraries using libacl.la (using libtool). for example, build kdelibs and kdebase. 2. 3. Actual results: Building kdelibs: /bin/sh ../../libtool --silent --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-ali gn -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -O2 -I/opt/kde3.5-rc1/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/opt/kde3.5-rc1/lib 64 -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -m64 -fPIC -march=opteron -O2 -pipe -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -fno-e xceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION -L/o pt/kde3.5-rc1/lib64 -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -o kded_kpasswdserver.la -rpath /opt/kde3.5-rc1/lib64/kde3 -L/opt/kde3.5-rc1/lib64 -L/usr/X1 1R6/lib64 -module -avoid-version kded_kpasswdserver_la.all_cpp.lo ../../kwallet/client/libkwalletclient.la ../../kio/libkio.la libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib64/libacl.la' seems to be moved libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib64/libattr.la' seems to be moved building kdebase: /bin/sh ../../libtool --silent --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -O2 -I/opt/kde3.5-rc1/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/opt/kde3.5-rc1/lib64 -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -m64 -fPIC -march=opteron -O2 -pipe -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION -D_GNU_SOURCE -L/opt/kde3.5-rc1/lib64 -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -o kded_favicons.la -rpath /opt/kde3.5-rc1/lib64/kde3 -L/opt/kde3.5-rc1/lib64 -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -module -avoid-version kded_favicons_la.all_cpp.lo -lkio grep: /lib64/libacl.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read /lib64/libacl.la: No such file or directory libtool: link: `/lib64/libacl.la' is not a valid libtool archive Expected results: Compilation and linking goes fine. Additional info: Looking into the package, it seems the problem comes from a wrong libdir entry in /usr/lib64/libacl.la # rpm -ql libacl-devel|grep libacl|xargs ls -l lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Nov 9 2004 /lib64/libacl.so -> libacl.so.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1896 Sep 16 2004 /usr/include/acl/libacl.h -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 99402 Sep 16 2004 /usr/lib64/libacl.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 782 Sep 16 2004 /usr/lib64/libacl.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Nov 9 2004 /usr/lib64/libacl.so -> /lib64/libacl.so # grep libdir /usr/lib64/libacl.la libdir='/lib64' <- WRONG: should be /usr/lib64 Solution 1 (preferred) libdir='/usr/lib64' in /usr/lib64/libacl.la Solution 2 (some libraries use this) - move libacl.a to /lib64 - add symbolic link /usr/lib64/libacl.a -> /lib64/libacl.a NOTE: libattr has the same problem, i.e /usr/lib64/libattr.la has libdir='/lib64' which should be '/usr/lib64 Cheers
From User-Agent: XML-RPC acl-2.2.32-1.FC4.2 has been pushed for FC4, which should resolve this issue. If these problems are still present in this version, then please make note of it in this bug report.