Comment 1 for bug 7613

clone 268140 -1
reassign -1 libtool
thanks

then libtool should be fixed. there is no documented requirement that
the path has to be normalized.

Goswin Brederlow writes:
> Package: libffi3-dev
> Version: 1:3.4.1-7
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> Hi,
>
> libffi.la has the following libdir:
>
> libdir='/usr/lib/../lib'
>
> That cuases libtool to add the rpath option when linking against the
> library which in turn prevents shlibs to work (since no package
> contains /usr/lib/../lib/libffi.so) which in turn miscompiles
> e.g. sablevm which in turn causes FTBFS for a lot of java packages.
>
> MfG
> Goswin
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-amd64
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE
>
> Versions of packages libffi3-dev depends on:
> ii gcc-3.4-base 3.4.1-7 The GNU Compiler Collection (base
> ii libc6-dev 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Development Librari
> ii libffi3 1:3.4.1-7 Foreign Function Interface library
>
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