Painkiller: libtool link errors cause build to take twice as long

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Oct 14 16:54:13 EDT 2005


What version of libtool do you have on your system?
Also what Distro is this?

(I'll note that this is why installing .la files is bad ;)

-derek

Quoting Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net>:

>
> Ok, here's a pain inducer:
>
>  Ever since some changes in the use of libtool a few months ago, I've 
> been getting lots of:
>
> libtool: link: warning: 
> `/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.0.1/../../..//libguile.la' seems to 
> be moved
> libtool: link: warning: 
> `/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.0.1/../../..//libguile-ltdl.la' 
> seems to be moved
> libtool: link: warning: 
> `/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.0.1/../../..//libqthreads.la' seems 
> to be moved
> libtool: link: warning: 
> `/usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.0.1/../../..//libpopt.la' seems to 
> be moved
>
>
> These are apparently harmless, but still make the build take about
> twice as long.  Seeing as building is something we want developers to
> do often, maybe we can make this a little less painful.
>
> Is anyone (other than David) working on this and/or know something
> about this?
>
> -chris
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