libtool: link: only absolute run-paths are allowed

Gansser, Martin MGansser at rand.de
Fri Feb 14 18:03:32 CST 2003



> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Hampton [mailto:hampton at employees.org]
> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 6:51 PM
> To: Gansser, Martin
> Cc: gnucash-devel at lists.gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: libtool: link: only absolute run-paths are allowed
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 06:39, Gansser, Martin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I tried to compile gnucash-1.8.1 on hpux 11.00, but I get 
> the following error message:
> > 
> > ...
> > libtool: link: only absolute run-paths are allowed
> 
> This vaguely rings a bell as an hpux issue that libtool couldn't work
> around.  I don't think its a gnucash issue at all.  I'm not 
> sure what to
> suggest other than skipping the 'make' step and going 
> straight to 'make
> install'.  IIRC, in the former command libtool tries to set up the
> application so it can be run from the source directory, thus relative
> run-paths. In the latter, libtool links the libs for their ultimate
> destination in the file system using absolute run paths.
> 
> David
Hi,

I tried know the compilation with ./configure .... gmake install,
but it fails again with libtool: link: only absolute run-paths are allowed

I made also tests with older automake and libtool version.

any suggestion

thanks Martin


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