Fix: Libtool fails to find dependent libraries when cross-compiling lttng-tools

This problem arise when cross compiling and linking libraries with
indirect libraries dependencies (such as liblttng-ust). This "bug" is
caused by an upstream modification in the libtool package on Debian
system. The libtool "link_all_deplibs" flag is set to "no" by default
on linux targets (AFAIK, other distros set it to "unknown").

The chosen solution is to detect such cases via the configure script
and automagically patch the libtool.m4 by forcing the "link_all_deplibs"
to "unknown".

This fixup can be disabled with the appropriate configure flag:

./configure --disable-libtool-linkdep-fixup

Sample configure output on affected systems:

checking for occurence(s) of link_all_deplibs = no in
	 ./config/libtool.m4... 3
configure: WARNING: the detected libtool will not link all
 	   dependencies, forcing link_all_deplibs = unknown

Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Babeux <christian.babeux@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@efficios.com>

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 9ad1135b7688bbb8358a6abe9fe04439d5da6875..286aa89330b8a4fb0a1872dae475a4ec4761fc6e 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -14,6 +14,31 @@ AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([VERSION_DESCRIPTION], ["$version_description"], "")
 
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([include/config.h])
 
+AC_PROG_GREP
+# libtool link_all_deplibs fixup. See http://bugs.lttng.org/issues/321.
+AC_ARG_ENABLE(libtool-linkdep-fixup,
+       AS_HELP_STRING([--disable-libtool-linkdep-fixup],
+                       [disable the libtool fixup for linking all dependent libraries (link_all_deplibs)]),
+       libtool_fixup=$enableval,
+       libtool_fixup=yes)
+
+AS_IF([test "x$libtool_fixup" = "xyes"],
+           [
+           libtool_m4="$srcdir/config/libtool.m4"
+           libtool_flag_pattern=".*link_all_deplibs\s*,\s*\$1\s*)"
+           AC_MSG_CHECKING([for occurence(s) of link_all_deplibs = no in $libtool_m4])
+           libtool_flag_pattern_count=$(grep -c "$libtool_flag_pattern\s*=\s*no" $libtool_m4)
+           AS_IF([test $libtool_flag_pattern_count -ne 0],
+           [
+                 AC_MSG_RESULT([$libtool_flag_pattern_count])
+                 AC_MSG_WARN([the detected libtool will not link all dependencies, forcing link_all_deplibs = unknown])
+                 sed -i "s/\($libtool_flag_pattern\)\s*=\s*no/\1=unknown/g" $libtool_m4
+                 ],
+                 [
+                 AC_MSG_RESULT([none])
+                 ])
+           ])
+
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS([ \
        sys/types.h unistd.h fcntl.h string.h pthread.h limits.h \
        signal.h stdlib.h sys/un.h sys/socket.h stdlib.h stdio.h \