Re: Building 1.4.0 fails on OpenBSD 3.9

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Kyle George wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
> > This (to me) looks like the classic link problem seen on *BSD operating
> > systems, whereby the linker doesn't actually link to the libraries in
> > the source tree, but to pre-existing svn libraries already installed on
> > the system. Try destroying all pre-installed libsvn* libraries and
> > rebuilding.
>
> Good call, thanks! "mv /usr/local/lib/libsvn* /tmp && make" fixed the
> problem.
>
> Anyone know if there is another way around this without having to be root
> and whacking existing binaries? Is it a bug in libtool, gcc, or what?

Sounds like either a behavior of BSD's linker, or of libtool's usage
of the linker.