Broken Libtool library files

[Ypnose]

Hello,
First of all, thanks for this tool, I use it extensively for my projects, well done !
After the cross compiler is built and installed inside the OUTPUT directory, I noticed Libtool *.la* files are broken. The path written in libdir= is wrong.

This is my config.mak :

TARGET = x86_64-linux-musl
OUTPUT = /tmp/cross-x86_64

DL_CMD = curl -C - -L -o

MUSL_CONFIG += --disable-shared

COMMON_CONFIG += --disable-nls --disable-shared --enable-languages=c
COMMON_CONFIG += CC="gcc -static --static" CXX="g++ -static --static"

GCC_CONFIG += --enable-languages=c
GCC_CONFIG += --disable-libquadmath --disable-decimal-float
GCC_CONFIG += --disable-multilib
GCC_CONFIG += --with-arch=x86-64

After, I launched make install :

$ ls -l /tmp/cross-x86_64/x86_64-linux-musl/lib/
total 5.2M
-rw-r--r-- 1 yp yp 1.6K Dec 29 12:26 crt1.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 yp yp 1016 Dec 29 12:26 crti.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 yp yp  960 Dec 29 12:26 crtn.o
drwxr-xr-x 2 yp yp 2.7K Dec 29 12:26 ldscripts/
-rw-r--r-- 1 yp yp 291K Dec 29 12:26 libatomic.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 yp yp  907 Dec 29 12:26 libatomic.la*
-rw-r--r-- 1 yp yp 2.6M Dec 29 12:26 libc.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 yp yp    8 Dec 29 12:26 libcrypt.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 yp yp    8 Dec 29 12:26 libdl.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 yp yp 2.2M Dec 29 12:26 libgomp.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 yp yp  897 Dec 29 12:26 libgomp.la*
-rw-r--r-- 1 yp yp  158 Dec 29 12:26 libgomp.spec
-rw-r--r-- 1 yp yp    8 Dec 29 12:26 libm.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 yp yp    8 Dec 29 12:26 libpthread.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 yp yp    8 Dec 29 12:26 libresolv.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 yp yp    8 Dec 29 12:26 librt.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 yp yp  64K Dec 29 12:26 libssp.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 yp yp  889 Dec 29 12:26 libssp.la*
-rw-r--r-- 1 yp yp 3.1K Dec 29 12:26 libssp_nonshared.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 yp yp  919 Dec 29 12:26 libssp_nonshared.la*
-rw-r--r-- 1 yp yp    8 Dec 29 12:26 libutil.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 yp yp    8 Dec 29 12:26 libxnet.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 yp yp 2.2K Dec 29 12:26 rcrt1.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 yp yp 1.6K Dec 29 12:26 Scrt1.o

Let's open libatomic.la file :

# libatomic.la - a libtool library file
# Generated by libtool (GNU libtool 1.3134 2009-11-29) 2.2.7a
#
# Please DO NOT delete this file!
# It is necessary for linking the library.

# The name that we can dlopen(3).
dlname=''

# Names of this library.
library_names=''

# The name of the static archive.
old_library='libatomic.a'

# Linker flags that can not go in dependency_libs.
inherited_linker_flags=' -pthread'

# Libraries that this one depends upon.
dependency_libs=''

# Names of additional weak libraries provided by this library
weak_library_names=''

# Version information for libatomic.
current=3
age=2
revision=0

# Is this an already installed library?
installed=yes

# Should we warn about portability when linking against -modules?
shouldnotlink=no

# Files to dlopen/dlpreopen
dlopen=''
dlpreopen=''

# Directory that this library needs to be installed in:
libdir='/x86_64-linux-musl/lib'

libdir line does not include /tmp/cross-x86_64 path. It is the same with other *.la files.

[ryan]

.la files are generally not needed on modern Linux systems, and in some cases can cause linking issues. See:

• https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/introduction/la-files.html

For musl and other sufficiently low-level libraries, it should be safe to remove them; if the system can't find ld.so and/or libc.so you have bigger problems to sort out. If you're not comfortable removing the .la files, it's probably best to fix them with sed.

[Ypnose]

Thanks for your message, I'll keep that in mind.