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lt wrapper script puts the .libs rpath last instead of first

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From: Ray Satiro <raysatiro <at> yahoo.com>
To: bug-libtool <at> gnu.org
Subject: lt wrapper script puts the .libs rpath last instead of first
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:31:44 -0400

I am building a shared library and a program that uses it and I need to 
run it uninstalled. libtool creates a lt- version of the program with an 
rpath to the uninstalled shared library, but the problem is I also set 
rpaths and libtool puts its rpath after mine instead of before.

I build curl in Ubuntu similar to this:

LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/ssl/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib" 
./configure [OPTIONS REMOVED FOR BREVITY]
make

I end up with

lib/.libs/libcurl.so
src/curl    <--- libtool wrapper script
src/.libs/lt-curl

When I run src/curl it execs lt-curl which has an rpath for 
/usr/local/lib before lib/.libs, and so it loads the libcurl.so from 
/usr/local/lib. Reviewing the wrapper script I can see libtool appends 
its rpath instead of putting it first. relink-command looks basically 
like this:

gcc -O2 -Wno-system-headers -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/ssl/lib -Wl,-rpath 
-Wl,/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib -o \$progdir/\$file 
[OBJECTS REMOVED FOR BREVITY] -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -L/usr/local/lib 
../lib/.libs/libcurl.so -lssl -lcrypto -lz -Wl,-rpath 
-Wl,/home/owner/curl-7.50.1/lib/.libs

I initially reported this to the cURL project, which I am a part of. The 
bug is https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/432 but I couldn't figure it out.

I attempted to work around this problem when I know src/curl is used by 
using LD_PRELOAD, like

LD_PRELOAD=$PWD/lib/.libs/libcurl.so make test

Recently though I realized a bunch of our tests are overriding 
LD_PRELOAD, and I don't have a work around for those cases at the moment.

I believe appending the lib/.libs rpath instead of prepending it could 
be a bug in libtool.

libtool (GNU libtool) 2.4.6 Debian-2.4.6-0.1
Ubuntu 16 LTS
4.4.0-34-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 27 16:06:39 UTC 2016 x86_64 
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Message #8 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ray Satiro <raysatiro <at> yahoo.com>
To: bug-libtool <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: lt wrapper script puts the .libs rpath last instead of first
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 21:55:35 -0400

On 8/24/2016 1:31 AM, Ray Satiro wrote:
> I am building a shared library and a program that uses it and I need
> to run it uninstalled. libtool creates a lt- version of the program
> with an rpath to the uninstalled shared library, but the problem is I
> also set rpaths and libtool puts its rpath after mine instead of before.
>
> I build curl in Ubuntu similar to this:
>
> LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/ssl/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib"
> ./configure [OPTIONS REMOVED FOR BREVITY]
> make
>
> I end up with
>
> lib/.libs/libcurl.so
> src/curl    <--- libtool wrapper script
> src/.libs/lt-curl
>
> When I run src/curl it execs lt-curl which has an rpath for
> /usr/local/lib before lib/.libs, and so it loads the libcurl.so from
> /usr/local/lib. Reviewing the wrapper script I can see libtool appends
> its rpath instead of putting it first. relink-command looks basically
> like this:
>
> gcc -O2 -Wno-system-headers -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/ssl/lib
> -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib -o
> \$progdir/\$file [OBJECTS REMOVED FOR BREVITY] -L/usr/local/ssl/lib
> -L/usr/local/lib ../lib/.libs/libcurl.so -lssl -lcrypto -lz -Wl,-rpath
> -Wl,/home/owner/curl-7.50.1/lib/.libs
>
> I initially reported this to the cURL project, which I am a part of.
> The bug is https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/432 but I couldn't
> figure it out.
>
> I attempted to work around this problem when I know src/curl is used
> by using LD_PRELOAD, like
>
> LD_PRELOAD=$PWD/lib/.libs/libcurl.so make test
>
> Recently though I realized a bunch of our tests are overriding
> LD_PRELOAD, and I don't have a work around for those cases at the moment.
>
> I believe appending the lib/.libs rpath instead of prepending it could
> be a bug in libtool.
>
> libtool (GNU libtool) 2.4.6 Debian-2.4.6-0.1
> Ubuntu 16 LTS
> 4.4.0-34-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 27 16:06:39 UTC 2016 x86_64
> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>

Hi I e-mailed this over 10 months ago but have not received a reply,
does it have an official bug number or ticket, is anyone aware of it?

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