[ale] library mystery

[Dow Hurst]

Was Jason's idea about fixing the libtool/automake problem not the solution or 
did you just downgrade and get back to business?  Curious since that is 
something I may have run into without realizing a couple of weeks ago.
Dow


Jim Philips wrote:
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> On Tuesday 30 March 2004 01:17 pm, Jason Day wrote:
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>>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:
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>>>>`echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH`?
>>>
>>>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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