[racket-dev] racket unlinking bigloo lib

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 10 09:25:11 EST 2012

At Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:31:19 +0100, Marijn wrote:
> Racket calls `ldconfig -n /usr/lib' in the course of doing `make
> install' and this causes one of bigloo's shared object symlinks to be
> unlinked.
> I don't think racket should be calling ldconfig.

That call comes from `libtool --mode=finish'. I'm no libtool expert,but
my understanding is that `libtool --mode=finish' is needed in general
when installing via `libtool'.

Maybe `configure' should accept a `--disable-libtoolfinish' flag that
skips the `libtool --mode=finish'?



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