RE: [patch #6448] [MSVC 7/7] Add MSVC Support

2008-08-29 Thread Duft Markus
Den 2008-08-26 13:53, skrev Peter Rosin: Charles Wilson skrev: I also think that -winnt is too broad; and I'd really hate to see the massive uglification of the libtool code -- and thousands of configure.ac's out there -- that would ensue if -mingw* were /officially/ overloaded to

Re: Linking with '-L /path/to/lib' (note the space!)

2008-08-29 Thread Olaf Lenz
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Re: [patch #6448] [MSVC 7/7] Add MSVC Support

2008-08-29 Thread Peter Rosin
Not sure if I should drag this further along... Den 2008-08-29 08:00, skrev Duft Markus: Den 2008-08-26 13:53, skrev Peter Rosin: Charles Wilson skrev: I also think that -winnt is too broad; and I'd really hate to see the massive uglification of the libtool code -- and thousands of

RE: [patch #6448] [MSVC 7/7] Add MSVC Support

2008-08-29 Thread Duft Markus
Not sure if I should drag this further along... So this is the last one ... :) [snip] __FUNCTION__ Valid only within a function and returns the undecorated name of the enclosing function (as a string). __FUNCTION__ is not expanded if you use the /EP or /P compiler option. Ok, on

Re: [patch #6448] [MSVC 7/7] Add MSVC Support

2008-08-29 Thread Charles Wilson
Peter Rosin wrote: Charles Wilson skrev: I also think that -winnt is too broad; and I'd really hate to see the massive uglification of the libtool code -- and thousands of configure.ac's out there -- that would ensue if -mingw* were /officially/ overloaded to also represent the msvc-toolchain

Re: [patch #6448] [MSVC 7/7] Add MSVC Support

2008-08-29 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2008-08-29 13:27, skrev Duft Markus: what if you do ./configure --host=i586-pc-winnt-msvc and have a link called i586-pc-winnt-msvc-cl to cl.exe? that would make configure select that compiler automatically. Nope, doesn't work (after adjusting to i686-pc-winnt, since config.sub complains

Re: [patch #6448] [MSVC 7/7] Add MSVC Support

2008-08-29 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2008-08-18 11:50, skrev Peter Rosin: Ralf Wildenhues skrev: PS: yes, all the other new tag variables need documenting in the manual, too, before the branch can be merged into master. Like this? [EMAIL PROTECTED] postlink_cmds +Commands necessary for finishing linking programs.