Re: libtool replacement in C: slibtool

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 08:40:54PM +0200, Rhialto wrote:
> On Thu 05 May 2016 at 17:20:55 +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 03:31:17PM +0200, Rhialto wrote:
> > > On Thu 05 May 2016 at 14:01:13 +0100, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> > > > Yes, working on it at the moment in collaboration with the folks on
> > > > Freenode/#midipix.
> > > 
> > > I suspect that this involves changing the ill-conceived behaviour around
> > > -R and -rpath, as it mentions in its README below?
> > 
> > -R shouldn't be used on first place in pkgsrc. -rpath shouldn't be
> > forwarded at all. It seems there is some confusion over the libtool
> > command line here...
> 
> I read the remark in the README file as "we won't do any rpath, ever".
> Perhaps that was too pessimistic of me...

That still sounds like a pretty fundamental misunderstand of what -rpath
means for libtool. It is essentially the installation directory and
nothing more.

Joerg