Re: Windows Patches [Was: GNU Libtool 2.2.8 released (stable)]

2010-06-09 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-06-08 18:19 skrev Christopher Hulbert: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Peter Rosinp...@lysator.liu.se wrote: Den 2010-06-08 15:40 skrev Christopher Hulbert: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Peter Rosinp...@lysator.liu.sewrote: I've had enough frustration here, methinks.

Windows Patches [Was: GNU Libtool 2.2.8 released (stable)]

2010-06-08 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
[[Adding Libtool List]] On 8 Jun 2010, at 08:42, Charles Wilson wrote: Which is why I don't think even the Peter's long-ready MSVC patches, nor my pile of pending patches, are candidates for this extremely shortened release cycle. Regarding these patches, I honestly have paid very little

Re: Windows Patches [Was: GNU Libtool 2.2.8 released (stable)]

2010-06-08 Thread Vincent Torri
On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: [[Adding Libtool List]] On 8 Jun 2010, at 08:42, Charles Wilson wrote: Which is why I don't think even the Peter's long-ready MSVC patches, nor my pile of pending patches, are candidates for this extremely shortened release cycle. Regarding these

Re: Windows Patches [Was: GNU Libtool 2.2.8 released (stable)]

2010-06-08 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi Gary! Den 2010-06-08 09:34 skrev Gary V. Vaughan: [[Adding Libtool List]] On 8 Jun 2010, at 08:42, Charles Wilson wrote: Which is why I don't think even the Peter's long-ready MSVC patches, nor my pile of pending patches, are candidates for this extremely shortened release cycle.

Re: Windows Patches [Was: GNU Libtool 2.2.8 released (stable)]

2010-06-08 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Vincent, On 8 Jun 2010, at 15:17, Vincent Torri wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: [[Adding Libtool List]] On 8 Jun 2010, at 08:42, Charles Wilson wrote: Which is why I don't think even the Peter's long-ready MSVC patches, nor my pile of pending patches, are candidates

Re: Windows Patches [Was: GNU Libtool 2.2.8 released (stable)]

2010-06-08 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-06-08 10:22 skrev Peter Rosin: It seems odd both to (a) have entries from 2009 in the (future-to-be) 2010 ChangeLog and (b) to make changes to the 2009 ChangeLog at this point. I see that for the first merge of master into the branch last year I updated the dates in the ChangeLog so

Re: Windows Patches [Was: GNU Libtool 2.2.8 released (stable)]

2010-06-08 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/08/2010 02:22 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: There's already the pr-msvc-support branch, but when I tried to merge master into it to make it easy to merge back later, the ChangeLog rotation caused conflicts. Do you have Bruno Haible's git-merge-changelog program installed on your machine? For

Re: Windows Patches [Was: GNU Libtool 2.2.8 released (stable)]

2010-06-08 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-06-08 11:50 skrev Eric Blake: On 06/08/2010 02:22 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: There's already the pr-msvc-support branch, but when I tried to merge master into it to make it easy to merge back later, the ChangeLog rotation caused conflicts. Do you have Bruno Haible's git-merge-changelog

Re: Windows Patches [Was: GNU Libtool 2.2.8 released (stable)]

2010-06-08 Thread Eric Blake
[adding Bruno, as author of git-merge-changelog] On 06/08/2010 04:14 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: I have git-merge-changelog. But my changes on the branch are in ChangeLog, and the question was where they should be after the merge, in ChangeLog or in ChangeLog.2009. I was not asking how the merge

Re: Windows Patches [Was: GNU Libtool 2.2.8 released (stable)]

2010-06-08 Thread Christopher Hulbert
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Peter Rosin p...@lysator.liu.se wrote: Hi Gary! Den 2010-06-08 09:34 skrev Gary V. Vaughan: [[Adding Libtool List]] On 8 Jun 2010, at 08:42, Charles Wilson wrote: Which is why I don't think even the Peter's long-ready MSVC patches, nor my pile of pending

Re: Windows Patches [Was: GNU Libtool 2.2.8 released (stable)]

2010-06-08 Thread Neil Jerram
On 8 June 2010 09:17, Vincent Torri vto...@univ-evry.fr wrote: even if you install mingw cross toolchain on linux ? You can even test Windows CE with cegcc on linux FWIW, my experience is that the mingw cross toolchain on linux is not a close enough approximation of the real thing on Windows;

Re: Windows Patches [Was: GNU Libtool 2.2.8 released (stable)]

2010-06-08 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
On 8 Jun 2010, at 15:22, Peter Rosin wrote: Hi Gary! Hey Peter! Den 2010-06-08 09:34 skrev Gary V. Vaughan: [[Adding Libtool List]] On 8 Jun 2010, at 08:42, Charles Wilson wrote: Which is why I don't think even the Peter's long-ready MSVC patches, nor my pile of pending patches, are

Re: Windows Patches [Was: GNU Libtool 2.2.8 released (stable)]

2010-06-08 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Chris, Forgive my jumping in again here... On 8 Jun 2010, at 17:47, Christopher Hulbert wrote: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Peter Rosin p...@lysator.liu.se wrote: Den 2010-06-08 09:34 skrev Gary V. Vaughan: On 8 Jun 2010, at 08:42, Charles Wilson wrote: Which is why I don't think even

Re: Windows Patches [Was: GNU Libtool 2.2.8 released (stable)]

2010-06-08 Thread Christopher Hulbert
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org wrote: Hi Chris, Forgive my jumping in again here... No problem, at least the subject is being talked about. On 8 Jun 2010, at 17:47, Christopher Hulbert wrote: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Peter Rosin p...@lysator.liu.se

Re: Windows Patches [Was: GNU Libtool 2.2.8 released (stable)]

2010-06-08 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi Christopher! Den 2010-06-08 15:06 skrev Christopher Hulbert: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Gary V. Vaughang...@gnu.org wrote: I think it important to merge pr-msvc-support into master one way or another so that it doesn't get ignored for any longer than it has already. I would like it

Re: Windows Patches [Was: GNU Libtool 2.2.8 released (stable)]

2010-06-08 Thread Christopher Hulbert
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Peter Rosin p...@lysator.liu.se wrote: Hi Christopher! Den 2010-06-08 15:06 skrev Christopher Hulbert: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Gary V. Vaughang...@gnu.org  wrote: I think it important to merge pr-msvc-support into master one way or another so that it

Re: Windows Patches [Was: GNU Libtool 2.2.8 released (stable)]

2010-06-08 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Chris, On 8 Jun 2010, at 20:06, Christopher Hulbert wrote: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org wrote: I think it important to merge pr-msvc-support into master one way or another so that it doesn't get ignored for any longer than it has already. I would like it

Re: Windows Patches [Was: GNU Libtool 2.2.8 released (stable)]

2010-06-08 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-06-08 15:40 skrev Christopher Hulbert: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Peter Rosinp...@lysator.liu.se wrote: I've had enough frustration here, methinks. Sorry for my contribution to your frustration. I would just like to see windows support in the mainstream to be done right, and

Re: Windows Patches [Was: GNU Libtool 2.2.8 released (stable)]

2010-06-08 Thread Christopher Hulbert
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Peter Rosin p...@lysator.liu.se wrote: Den 2010-06-08 15:40 skrev Christopher Hulbert: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Peter Rosinp...@lysator.liu.se  wrote: I've had enough frustration here, methinks. Sorry for my contribution to your frustration. I would

Re: Windows Patches [Was: GNU Libtool 2.2.8 released (stable)]

2010-06-08 Thread Charles Wilson
On 6/8/2010 6:47 AM, Christopher Hulbert wrote: Peter/Charles, Do you have a summary of the capabilities added by your patches/branch I'll let Peter speak for himself, but these are the patches in the cygwin and mingw distributions: * Pass various runtime library flags to GCC.