http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46607
--- Comment #7 from Ralf Wildenhues <rwild at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-01-25 06:40:20 UTC --- (In reply to comment #6) > I would note incidentally a suggestion (comment #3) to work around the > general libtool bug on MinGW by stopping it relinking on MinGW. I don't > believe there's any good reason for it to be relinking for GCC builds to > ELF targets either, so perhaps stopping relinking there would help avoid > this problem in many more cases. But there is a good reason to relink on ELF: uninstalled libraries and executables get DT_RPATH entries against uninstalled libraries they depend on, so that uninstalled programs can be executed in a test suite before installing the libraries they depend on. Removing (or replacing) those DT_RPATH entries is the point of relinking. That GCC takes care of the uninstalled paths in some other way as well is something libtool cannot know.
