GNU bug report logs - #15406
buggy library symlink install due to use of ldconfig

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I've reported the following bug in the Debian BTS:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=723638

Some MPFR user found the following problem:

  https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/mpfr/2013-09/msg00018.html

which I can reproduce below.

When installing two different versions of MPFR in the same directory,
I get:

[...]
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libmpfr.so.4.1.2 /home/vlefevre/tmpmpfr/lib/libmpfr.so.4.1.2
libtool: install: (cd /home/vlefevre/tmpmpfr/lib && { ln -s -f libmpfr.so.4.1.2 libmpfr.so.4 || { rm -f libmpfr.so.4 && ln -s libmpfr.so.4.1.2 libmpfr.so.4; }; })
libtool: install: (cd /home/vlefevre/tmpmpfr/lib && { ln -s -f libmpfr.so.4.1.2 libmpfr.so || { rm -f libmpfr.so && ln -s libmpfr.so.4.1.2 libmpfr.so; }; })
[...]

for the first one (MPFR 3.1.2), and:

[...]
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libmpfr.so.4.1.0 /home/vlefevre/tmpmpfr/lib/libmpfr.so.4.1.0
libtool: install: (cd /home/vlefevre/tmpmpfr/lib && { ln -s -f libmpfr.so.4.1.0 libmpfr.so.4 || { rm -f libmpfr.so.4 && ln -s libmpfr.so.4.1.0 libmpfr.so.4; }; })
libtool: install: (cd /home/vlefevre/tmpmpfr/lib && { ln -s -f libmpfr.so.4.1.0 libmpfr.so || { rm -f libmpfr.so && ln -s libmpfr.so.4.1.0 libmpfr.so; }; })
[...]

for the second one (MPFR trunk r8680), which yields:

lrwxrwxrwx 1      16 2013-09-18 12:42:10 libmpfr.so -> libmpfr.so.4.1.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1      16 2013-09-18 12:42:10 libmpfr.so.4 -> libmpfr.so.4.1.2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1913565 2013-09-18 12:42:10 libmpfr.so.4.1.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1821786 2013-09-18 12:41:21 libmpfr.so.4.1.2

libmpfr.so.4 doesn't have the correct target!

After looking at strace output, the change of libmpfr.so.4 to point
back to libmpfr.so.4.1.2 is done by ldconfig after the installation
of the symlinks:

libtool: finish: PATH="/home/vlefevre/eftests/bin:/home/vlefevre/bin:/home/vlefevre/x86_64/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/games:.:/sbin" ldconfig -n /home/vlefevre/tmpmpfr/lib

This is probably not what the user expects and leads to confusion.
Either ldconfig should no longer be executed or the "make install"
should fail with a clear error message if the installed library is
not the "most recent" one.

("most recent" is the term used by ldconfig, but in practice, the
highest-version library may not be the most recent due to development
versions, which may not have accurate versioning information yet.)

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