[th/rpm] R: libtool(*.la) - good or bad

[Jakub Bogusz]

On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 10:57:33PM +0100, Tomasz Trojanowski wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 22:22 +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > On Sunday 26 November 2006 22:12, Tomasz Trojanowski wrote:
> > > > Of course there are still problems.
> > > >
> > > >  libdb.la symlink to real file libdb-4.5.la
> > > >
> > > > Now other packages get R: libtool(libdb.la) but nothing provides it since
> > > > it's not detected.
> > > >
> > > > Wouldn't be it better to generate Requires: /usr/lib/file.la instead of
> > > > libtool(/usr/lib/file.la) ? That way we wouldn't need to rebuild all
> > > > packages containing .la files.
> > >
> > > Or simply:
> > >
> > > --- libtooldeps.sh.orig 2006-11-26 00:16:19 +0100
> > > +++ libtooldeps.sh      2006-11-26 22:06:56 +0100
> > > @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
> > >             do
> > >                 case "$dep" in
> > >                 /*.la)
> > > +                   $dep = `readlink -f $dep`
> > >                     echo "libtool($dep)"
> > >                     ;;
> > >                 esac
> > >
> > 
> > That won't work.
> 
> Will. Ie. some package R: libtool(/usr/lib/libdb.la), with this patch
> will be converted to R: libtool(/usr/lib/libdb-4.5.la), which is
> provided by db4.5-devel

But in fact it requires /usr/lib/libdb.la, not /usr/lib/libdb-4.5.la.


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