Re: Information sought from Debian Sid users

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 17:04, Rob Adams wrote:
> Yes, I had a very similar problem.  I was unable to link ORBit2 because
> libtool was trying to link to my /usr/lib libraries rather than the ones
> in my jhbuild root.  Removing the -dev gnome-related debian packages
> fixed that problem, though I ended up with another problem building gtk
> further down the road.  I've been having this problem for a couple of
> weeks though, not just since Friday.
> 
> This is likely related to a bug in libtool that causes the linking to
> not respect the order in which the include directories were specified
> and so ends up linking to the wrong library.  I've run into this bug
> several times before when trying to build gnome from CVS, causing
> problems not just at compile time in ORBit2 but also in gnomemeeting at
> run time.  I don't know what the status is for fixing this bug in
> upstream libtool, or even if the maintainers consider this behavior to
> be a bug.

It is not impossible that I am mistaken, but I think you are seeing
something else entirely. There is (was?) a problem with libtool where a
-L setting will sometimes cause subsequent -l links to come from the
location you do not expect.

I am talking about something that appears to have broken very recently.
I have two reports of Sid updates "over the last few days" and one
concrete one of "last Friday". So the timeframe is fairly precise.

Malcolm