Libtool think that a “library was moved” but it isn't the case

Question

I am currently recompiling gtk+ and dependencies from source (I have no other choices).

All my custom packages are installed in a specific custom point (let's call it /packages) (it can seem odd but this time again, I have no other choices).

When I try to recompile pango, it needs freetype. Freetype is already installed in /packages/freetype/2.1.10/amd64-linux (lib, include ... are in this directory) and the different config path are set (LD_LIBRARY_PATH, LIBRARY_PATH, CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH, INCLUDE_PATH, PKG_CONFIG_PATH). configuration of pango run well. It find freetype and generate the Makefile. When I try to make, I get the following error :

libtool: link: warning: library `/packages/freetype/2.1.10/amd64-linux//lib/libfreetype.la' was moved.
grep: /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.la: No such file or directory

libtool has a problem with my lib (but libfreetype.la exists in the directory /packages/freetype/2.1.10/amd64-linux//lib/and there's no problem of access). So libtool try to find it in the "classic places" like /usr/... and don't find it.

At the beginning, I thought that libtool get confused with the two slashes (probably due to an error in the --prefix flag during the compilation of freetype) so I did recompile freetype without the typo but it didn't change anything.

Has anybody an idea to help me ? I have never used libtool in my personnal projects before so I don't know if there's a way to solve this strange behavior... (It's maybe irrelevant but libtool is version 1.5.22)

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Have you looked inside the libfreetype.la file? Libtool .la files are just text files describing libraries. By default, they are commented. Search for the libdir and dependency_libs settings and check if they point to the right places.