Martin Simmons wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:32:56 -0500, Dan Langille said:
>> Martin Simmons wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:45:43 -0500, Dan Langille said:
>>>> Folks,
>>>>
>>>> I am finding that the location of the executable binary varies from one 
>>>> system to another.  I am trying to find out why.  The answer will help 
>>>> to improve the build and install process.
>>>>
>>>> Sometimes the binary is at:
>>>>
>>>>    src/qt-console/bat
>>>>
>>>> If not there, it is at:
>>>>
>>>>    src/qt-console/.libs/bat
>>>>
>>>> Within a given system, the location is always consistent.  It is one of 
>>>> the above.  Why the location varies, I do not know.
>>> The .libs directory is the default location when building with libtool (for
>>> Bacula shared libraries).
>> This is interesting.  Please, can you elaborate?
> 
> The libtool utility is a wrapper around compiling/linking/install to deal with
> portability for shared library naming.
> 
> In the build tree, it puts all shared libraries and executables into
> subdirectories which are called .libs by default.  It also creates a shell
> script for each executable, which sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH appropriately to make
> it work in the build tree.
> 
> Note that this is only in the build tree.  During "make install", it installs
> the real libraries and binaries.
> 
> My guess is that that some are not being linked with shared libraries for some
> reason, so Bacula is not using libtool and the real executable is built in
> src/qt-console/bat.
> 
> It isn't clear to me why the location of the binaries matters, unless the
> Makefile is broken.

It matters because building the FreeBSD port/packages needs to know 
where the binary is.  Without knowing, you can't install it or build it 
into a package.

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