[ale] library mystery

[Jim Philips]

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On Tuesday 30 March 2004 01:17 pm, Jason Day wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 08:37:22PM -0500, Jim Philips wrote:
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> > On Monday 29 March 2004 07:48 pm, james at sumners.ath.cx wrote:
> > > `echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH`?
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> > That doesn't really do it. Notice that  libparted-1.6.0.0.8 doesn't have
> > "so" anywhere in the file name?
>
> A similar problem was posted to the J-Pilot list not long ago.  There
> seems to be a bug in automake, autoconf, or libtool that generates a
> broken libtool script when configure is run.  The suggested quick fix is
> to remove the generated libtool from your source tree, and create a
> symlink to the libtool in /usr/bin.  Then run make, make clean, and make
> install.
>
> I don't know if a proper fix has been found yet.

Well, my solution was to downgrade from parted 1.6.8 to 1.6.6. The older 
version generates proper shared object files which do get picked up by 
ldconfig. There is probably a better solution to be had from the parted 
developers, but I didn't feel like chasing it.
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