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["Mathieu L." <lejatorn AT smgl.homelinux.net>]

update:

it seems it's only failing inside cast; I ran 
./configure; 
make; 
make install 

in flac sources and the linking went fine; I have all the libs installed
in /usr/local/lib.

Mathieu.

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 02:05:27AM +0100, Mathieu L. wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I recently issued a system-update which went really bad. Most of the
> builds were failing because lots of generic version symlinks in /usr/lib
> were missing; I mean stuff like:
> /usr/lib/libX11.so -> libX11.so.6
> 
> I pinpointed the problem to the generation of those symlinks which
> apparently is done in a ./libtool script found in the source package for
> a given program. (I haven't checked at which point this libtool script
> is generated.) Well it happens that this step systematically fails here
> when this ./libtool is run.
> An example with flac that I've just cast: (note that it didn't make the
> spell fail, while I'm now missing some symlinks to libFLAC.so)
> 
> from the compile log:
> 
> (cd /usr/lib && rm -f libFLAC.so.8 && ln -s libFLAC.so.8.2.0
> libFLAC.so.8)
> (cd /usr/lib && rm -f libFLAC.so.8 && ln -s libFLAC.so.8.2.0
> libFLAC.so.8)
> (cd /usr/lib && rm -f libFLAC.so.8 && ln -s libFLAC.so.8.2.0
> libFLAC.so.8)
> (cd /usr/lib && rm -f libFLAC.so && ln -s libFLAC.so.8.2.0 libFLAC.so)
> ../../libtool: line 5954: 31360 Segmentation fault      rm -f
> libFLAC.so.8
> (cd /usr/lib && rm -f libFLAC.so && ln -s libFLAC.so.8.2.0 libFLAC.so)
> (cd /usr/lib && rm -f libFLAC.so && ln -s libFLAC.so.8.2.0 libFLAC.so)
> ../../libtool: line 5954: 31360 Segmentation fault      rm -f
> libFLAC.so.8
> ../../libtool: line 5954: 31360 Segmentation fault      rm -f
> libFLAC.so.8
> ../../libtool: line 5954: 31362 Segmentation fault      rm -f libFLAC.so
> ../../libtool: line 5954: 31362 Segmentation fault      rm -f libFLAC.so
> ../../libtool: line 5954: 31362 Segmentation fault      rm -f libFLAC.so
> 
> and now a glance at the code in ./libtool responsible for that:
> 
> if test "$#" -gt 0; then
>       # Delete the old symlinks, and create new ones.
>       for linkname
>       do
>               if test "$linkname" != "$realname"; then
>                       $show "(cd $destdir && $rm $linkname && $LN_S 
> $realname $linkname)"
>                       $run eval "(cd $destdir && $rm $linkname && $LN_S 
> $realname $linkname)"
>               fi
>       done
> fi
> 
> Can anyone see what's wrong please?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mathieu.
> 
> 
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