Re: [gentoo-alt] revdep-rebuild and install_name

[Fabian Groffen]

On 14-05-2007 16:31:57 +0200, Johan Hattne wrote:
>
> On May 14, 2007, at 15:49 , Fabian Groffen wrote:
>
>> On 14-05-2007 15:40:51 +0200, Johan Hattne wrote:
>>
>>> Then, I don't quite see the principal problem with configuring to
>>> /usr/lib,
>>> moving lib{,n}curses{,w} (plus some $(get_libname) trickery) to /lib and
>>> gen_usr_ldscript() the moved libraries.  Since gen_usr_ldscript() creates
>>> symlinks or wrappers in /usr/lib and not /lib, above seems easier to me
>>> than doing it the other way around?
>>
>> Because all libs are moved to lib, and only the .a remains in usr/lib,
>> to make sure GCC doesn't do static linking, a symlink of the libs is
>> placed in usr/lib next to the static lib (.a).  So the real location of
>> the libs is in /lib.
>
> No, as far as I can see, only libcurses.*.dylib (and if unicode is in use,
> libcursesw.*.dylib) are moved to /lib.  lib{form,menu,panel} and their wide
> versions are put into /usr/lib, and those are the ones that cause problems,
> because there are no links from /lib to /usr/lib.  gen_usr_ldscript()
> doesn't create links from /lib to /usr/lib.

True.  So it sucks.  Bleh.  It actually needs two configure/make/install runs to get that right.... :(


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Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level

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