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

[Tomasz Trojanowski]

On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 21:50 +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> On Saturday 25 November 2006 00:35, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > On Saturday 25 November 2006 00:10, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > > On Thursday 23 November 2006 22:26, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > >
> > > http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/SOURCES/file-offset.patch?rev=1.1
> >
> > More hacky but better :)
> > http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/SOURCES/file-offset.patch?rev=1.2
> 
> 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

Tomek