Re: libtool

[Larry McQueary <mcqueary attbi com>]

Example:

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. 
-I/home/larry/garnome/include/glib-2.0 
-I/home/larry/garnome/lib/glib-2.0/include 
-I/home/larry/garnome/include/gnome-vfs-2.0 
-I/home/larry/garnome/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/include 
-I/home/larry/garnome/include/bonobo-activation-2.0 
-I/home/larry/garnome/include/orbit-2.0 
-I/home/larry/garnome/include/libxml2 
-I/home/larry/garnome/include/linc-1.0 
-I/home/larry/garnome/include/gnome-vfs-module-2.0 
-I/home/larry/garnome/include/libbonobo-2.0 
-DSERVERDIR=\"/home/larry/garnome/libexec\" 
-I/home/larry/garnome/include -I/usr/local/X11R6/include 
-I/usr/local/openssl/include -I/home/larry/garnome/include 
-I/usr/local/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/openssl/include 
-I/home/larry/garnome/include -I/usr/local/X11R6/include 
-I/usr/local/openssl/include -I/home/larry/garnome/include 
-I/usr/local/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/openssl/include 
-I/home/larry/garnome/include -I/usr/local/X11R6/include 
-I/usr/local/openssl/include -I/home/larry/garnome/include 
-I/usr/local/X11R6/include -L/home/larry/garnome/lib 
-L/usr/local/X11R6/lib -I/usr/local/openssl/include -O2 -pipe -g 
-I/home/larry/garnome/include -I/usr/local/X11R6/include 
-L/home/larry/garnome/lib -L/usr/local/X11R6/lib 
-I/usr/local/openssl/include -O2 -pipe -g -I/home/larry/garnome/include 
-I/usr/local/X11R6/include -L/home/larry/garnome/lib 
-L/usr/local/X11R6/lib -I/usr/local/openssl/include -O2 -pipe -g 
-I/home/larry/garnome/include -I/usr/local/X11R6/include 
-L/home/larry/garnome/lib -L/usr/local/X11R6/lib 
-I/usr/local/openssl/include -O2 -pipe -g -I/home/larry/garnome/include 
-I/usr/local/X11R6/include -L/home/larry/garnome/lib 
-L/usr/local/X11R6/lib -I/usr/local/openssl/include -O2 -pipe -c 
help-method.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o help-method.lo
/usr/local/bin/bash ../../libtool --mode=link gcc  
-I/home/larry/garnome/include -I/usr/local/X11R6/include 
-L/home/larry/garnome/lib -L/usr/local/X11R6/lib 
-I/usr/local/openssl/include -O2 -pipe -g -I/home/larry/garnome/include 
-I/usr/local/X11R6/include -L/home/larry/garnome/lib 
-L/usr/local/X11R6/lib -I/usr/local/openssl/include -O2 -pipe -g 
-I/home/larry/garnome/include -I/usr/local/X11R6/include 
-L/home/larry/garnome/lib -L/usr/local/X11R6/lib 
-I/usr/local/openssl/include -O2 -pipe -g -I/home/larry/garnome/include 
-I/usr/local/X11R6/include -L/home/larry/garnome/lib 
-L/usr/local/X11R6/lib -I/usr/local/openssl/include -O2 -pipe -g 
-I/home/larry/garnome/include -I/usr/local/X11R6/include 
-L/home/larry/garnome/lib -L/usr/local/X11R6/lib 
-I/usr/local/openssl/include -O2 -pipe -L/home/larry/garnome/lib 
-L/usr/local/X11R6/lib -L/usr/local/openssl/lib 
-L/home/larry/garnome/lib -L/usr/local/X11R6/lib 
-L/usr/local/openssl/lib -L/home/larry/garnome/lib 
-L/usr/local/X11R6/lib -L/usr/local/openssl/lib 
-L/home/larry/garnome/lib -L/usr/local/X11R6/lib 
-L/usr/local/openssl/lib -L/home/larry/garnome/lib 
-L/usr/local/X11R6/lib -L/usr/local/openssl/lib -o libvfs-help.la -rpath 
/home/larry/garnome/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules -export_dynamic 
-avoid-version help-method.lo -L/home/larry/garnome/lib -lgnomevfs-2 
-lbonobo-2 -lbonobo-activation -lORBit-2 -lxml2 -lz -lm -lsocket -lnsl 
-llinc -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lgobject-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lthread 
-lglib-2.0 -lintl -liconv   -lpopt  -liconv


ARGH!!!

Larry

Larry McQueary wrote:

> For that matter, and perhaps libtool's not the culprit on this, in 
> many if not most packages I see my CFLAGS being repeated 3, 4, 10 
> times in a row during compilation of each file.  I can appreciate 
> wearing a belt and suspenders, but can't understand the ad nauseam 
> repetition. 
> Again, is this something everyone else is seeing, or is it perhaps 
> just related to my non-Linux system?  I find that hard to believe, 
> given how generic GNU make and libtool are meant to be.
>
> Larry McQueary wrote:
>
> > Does anyone else have issues with libtool creating many many many 
> > duplicate library dependencies ??  I find in some packages (like 
> > gnome-vfs) that I'll have -L/somepathname -lnsl -lsocket (as 
> > examples) repeated over and over 30, 50, or 100 times for the same 
> > link.  Of course, many other times, they're only repeated 10 times or 
> > less.
> >
> > It's so bad in some packages that I'll literally get so many 
> > repetitions of "-lnsl -lsocket" that the line length is exceeded and 
> > the script malfunctions as a result because the link line is not 
> > completed.  I finally had to start copying the libtool from 
> > gtk+-2.0.6 over into some packages, and even then had to hack it up 
> > so that it wouldn't loop endlessly.
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> > Larry
> > (Solaris 2.8, gcc-3.2, most common GNU packages installed)