So I tried changing the xfsprogs package in openSUSE to build without static libraries, and what I got back from the build system was a warning about completely improper rpath settings. ERROR: RPATH "/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/xfsprogs-3.1.6/libxfs/.libs" on /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/xfsprogs-3.1.6-0.x86_64/usr/sbin/mkfs.xfs is not allowed [lots of these] I therefore ripped out -LTLDFLAGS += -rpath $(PKG_ROOT_LIB_DIR) from include/buildmacros, only to find that the install procedure then does not work at all anymore. cd ../libhandle/.libs; ../../install-sh -o abuild -g abuild -m 755 -d /lib64; ../../install-sh -o abuild -g abuild -m 644 -T so_dot_version libhandle.lai /lib64; ../../install-sh -o abuild -g abuild -T so_dot_current libhandle.lai /lib64 install-sh: Unable to find libtool library file libhandle.lai install-sh: Unable to find libtool library file libhandle.lai gmake[1]: *** [install] Error 2 make: *** [libhandle-install] Error 2 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.JjlSJb (%install) (I frown upon using libtool directly and seek to replace it with an assisted version using automake. There is however __quite__ some cruft in the src tree.) _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs