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On Saturday 26 September 2009 10:48:53 Andrey Grozin wrote: |
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> On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> >> so long as the linker looks at /usr/lib before /lib, which is usually |
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> >> the case, unless "-L/lib" is passed to ld (by way of gcc) |
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> > |
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> > incorrect -- link order doesnt matter here with readline-6 |
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> Here's a specific example: sci-mathematics/pari-2.3.4-r1. It has a |
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> hand-written Configure script (not configure). It searches for |
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> libreadline.so in a list of directories, and sees that it points to |
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> libreadline.so.5 (this is after libreadline-5 has been unmerged). So, it |
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> adds -l libreadline.so.5 to the linking flags. Clearly, this is not the |
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> desired behaviour. What can be done to avoid it? |
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the configure script is broken and it should be fixed. linking directly |
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against a SONAME is wrong. |
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-mike |
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