Re: svn commit: r901778 - /subversion/trunk/build.conf

Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com> writes:

> Any ideas how to fix the build system to not get confused by older
> installed libraries existing at the path where it is configured to
> install to?

It's an old bug, and hard to solve on all the platforms libtool
supports.

Does Ubuntu use Debian's patch for reducing libtool dependencies? If
so then using a pristine upstream libtool might work. There is some
history here:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=291641
and
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=320698

My own technique is to configure with --prefix to a non-existant
location for my day-to-day development. When I decide to install a
particular revision I reconfigure and rebuild with a proper prefix,
moving the old libraries out of prefix/lib if necessary.

-- 
Philip