Error in Relinking (was: Question about ORBit2, gnome-canvas & gnome-ui)

[Chris Chabot <chabotc reviewboard com>]

Hi Evandro, thanks for the hints!

Evandro Fernandes Giovanini wrote:
> Em Dom, 2002-02-24 ās 09:11, Chris Chabot escreveu:
> > What could explain this behaviour? Are some dependencies missing?
>
> The problem (I think) is that the linker is trying to use the ORBit2
> libraries that are in /usr/lib instead of ../src/.libs and therefore
> can't find them. If you pay attention you'll see some error messages
> during %makeinstall.
>
> Btw, gail also has this problem (only libgailutil* is installed,
> libgail.* is missing). If you manually copy the libgail.* libraries to
> /usr/lib after running make, next time you run %makeinstall the
> libgail.* files will be created.

Yep, i ran thru the output logs of the affected packages, and during the 
make install, it shows a message "Warning: relinking .... ". (I don't 
quite know why this happens though).

However, the sequence that causes this makes sence.. Since the makefile 
is using $PREFIX/lib as library include path, and not it's own .libs, it 
can not re-link the file, and the file is thus history..

(i presume it is relinking during install since its using a different 
library dir?)

This bug ofcource doesnt show up when the $prefix is the same as the 
destdir.. since the libs needed to relink are present.

However _any_ packaging tool i know (rpm, but also deb, etc), make 
install into a different destdir, so would have this bug. Basicly making 
the packages unpackagable ? ;-)

Shall i file bug-reports in bugzilla for the affected packages?
(libgnomeui, libgnomecanvas, libgail, ORBit2), or is anyone actively 
working on this?


	-- Chris