Avail for test: libtool-devel-1.9f_20041024-1, libltdl6-1.9f_20041024-1

[Charles Wilson]

Peter Ekberg wrote:
> I have a problem with "make install" of a built executable.

I'm confused.

Background: the only reason you ever need a wrapper script for an 
executable in a libtoolized project, is when that executable depends on 
an uninstalled shared library.  You need the wrapper script to set PATH 
(and LD_LIBRARY_PATH on other platforms) so that the runtime loader can 
find the shared library.

BUT, if you do not depend on any (uninstalled) shared libraries, then 
you don't need a wrapper script...so it shouldn't be created at all, and 
the "real" executable should be in the build directory, not in .libs/

> Its wrapper script contains:
> ---------------8<----------------
> relink_command=""
> 
> # This environment variable determines our operation mode.
> if test "$libtool_install_magic" = "%%%MAGIC variable%%%"; then
>   # install mode needs the following variable:
>   notinst_deplibs=''
> else
> ---------------8<----------------

This comes from this fragment:

if test \"\$libtool_install_magic\" = \"$magic\"; then
   # install mode needs the following variable:
   notinst_deplibs='$notinst_deplibs'
else

> and make install fails with:
> 
> libtool: install: invalid libtool wrapper script `xsendbut'
> 
> This is because this test is true in ltmain.m4sh:
> ---------------8<----------------
> 	  # Check the variables that should have been set.
> 	  test -z "$notinst_deplibs" && \
> 	    func_fatal_error "invalid libtool wrapper script
> \`$wrapper'"
> ---------------8<----------------
> 
> Adding a space between the '' in the wrapper script makes it
> work, of course.

Right.  This is part of the integrity checks built in to libtool -- 
since the ONLY thing you know about any exe wrapper script is it darn 
well better define noninst_deplibs (otherwise, there should be no 
wrapper).  So, to check that it successfully sourced something that WAS 
in fact a wrapper script, libtool tries to make sure that 
notinst_deplibs got set.  ('cause if it didn't, then there are probably 
other significant problems, like an incorrect $relink_cmd, etc)

In your case, you have a wrapper script -- but an empty noninst_deplibs. 
  One of two things is true:

(1) your exe really truly does not depend on any uninstalled libraries.
    --> so need to investigate WHY a wrapper script was created at all.
or

(2) your exe DOES have uninstalled library dependencies
    --> so need to investigate WHY they went unrecorded in the wrapper.

Needless to say, I haven't observed that behavior here.

BTW, does your version of libtool contain this ChangeLog entry?

2004-10-09  Charles Wilson  <spam.protected>

         * config/ltmain.m4sh (func_mode_link): don't relink
         on cygwin/mingw; no need.  But do ensure that wrappers
         are created unless doing a purely static build.

'cause it touches exactly this bit of code.

--
Chuck


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