LIBRARY_PATH problems

["Kris Thielemans" <kris at wren dot rpms dot ac dot uk>]

Hi Mumit,
(I forward this to the list now as I can be more specific now)

I'm using egcs 1.0.2 (on Cygwin b19.1), on a NT 4.0 sp3 machine. Using the
LIBRARY_PATH variable has apparently a problem when the specified directory
is not on the c: drive (probably this should read "on the drive mounted as
/").

I did the following:
1)
- copy a library (I'll take libX11.a as example) to c:\ll
- LIBRARY_PATH=/ll
- gcc -lX11 finds the library correctly
- remove c:\ll\*, but keep the (empty) directory

2)
- copy that library to d:\ll
- LIBRARY_PATH=//d/ll or d:/ll or /home/ll (as I have d:\ mounted as /home)
or even or d:\ll
- gcc -lX11 does not find the library in any of these 4 cases
- running gcc with the -v option shows that an option -L/ll (or -L\ll in the
last case) is passed to ld, that is, the drive letter is simply discarded
(after some processing of mount tables and //d syntax).
(Note that you'll see this only when you have c:\ll present)
- gcc -lX11 -L$LIBRARY_PATH works in all 4 cases

3) I tried similar things with more complicate paths (and mountings). The
result is always the same: gcc strips (only) the drive letter from the path
given in LIBRARY_PATH.

I hope this is reproducible (and clear enough).

Kris

PS:
an example (where I've added the *** in  the output of gcc to guide your
eye, silly lines breaks are because I copy paste from an NT window).

bash-2.01$ LIBRARY_PATH=//d/ll
bash-2.01$ gcc -v -lX11
Reading specs from
d:\Cygnus\B19\H-i386-cygwin32\lib\gcc-lib\i386-cygwin32\egcs-2.90.27\specs
gcc version egcs-2.90.27 980315 (egcs-1.0.2 release)

d:\Cygnus\B19\H-i386-cygwin32\lib\gcc-lib\i386-cygwin32\egcs-2.90.27\../../.
./../i386-cygwin3
2\bin\ld.exe
d:\Cygnus\B19\H-i386-cygwin32\lib\gcc-lib\i386-cygwin32\egcs-2.90.27\../../.
./../
i386-cygwin32\lib\crt0.o -Ld:\Cygnus\B19\H-i386-cygwin32\lib\gcc-lib\i386-cy
gwin32\egcs-2.90.2
7 -Ld:\Cygnus\B19\H-i386-cygwin32\lib\gcc-lib  ***-L\ll ***
-Ld:\Cygnus\B19\H-i386-cygwin32\lib\gcc-li
b\i386-cygwin32\egcs-2.90.27\../../../../i386-cygwin32\lib -Ld:\Cygnus\B19\H
-i386-cygwin32\lib
\gcc-lib\i386-cygwin32\egcs-2.90.27\../../.. -lX11 -lgcc -lcygwin -lkernel32
 -ladvapi32 -lshel
l32 -lgcc
/usr/H-i386-cygwin32/i386-cygwin32/bin/ld.exe: cannot open -lX11: No such
file or directory



bash-2.01$ mount
Device           Directory           Type        Flags
d:\Cygnus\B19    /usr                native      text=binary
d:               /home               native      text!=binary
\\.\tape1:       /dev/st1            native      text!=binary
\\.\tape0:       /dev/st0            native      text!=binary
\\.\b:           /dev/fd1            native      text!=binary
\\.\a:           /dev/fd0            native      text!=binary
c:               /                   native      text!=binary

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