Re: executable wrapper on mingw mangles arguments

2008-11-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bruno, * Bruno Haible wrote on Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:47:44PM CET: Find attached the resulting logs (stdout+stderr, and tests/testsuite.dir/36/testsuite.log). The test passes. But it also passes when I comment out the line newargv = prepare_spawn (newargv); in ltmain.sh and do a make

Re: executable wrapper on mingw mangles arguments

2008-11-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ Cc:ing the list ] * Bruno Haible wrote on Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:21:10AM CET: If you prefer a tarball for testing, then I can also just push the combined patch and you can use the nightly build from the Libtool web page. Yes please. It's safer and less troublesome if I can use a

Re: executable wrapper on mingw mangles arguments

2008-11-09 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Charles, * Charles Wilson wrote on Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 09:11:28PM CET: Ralf Wildenhues wrote: I think instead of Bruno's patch a much simpler fix is possible by including a different header: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user/27968/focus=28033 For the reasons listed

Re: executable wrapper on mingw mangles arguments

2008-11-09 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Charles, Bruno, * Charles Wilson wrote on Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 05:16:03PM CET: Bruno Haible wrote: This is a severe regression in libtool 2.x w.r.t. 1.5.26. On mingw, several of the gettext tests fail because the executable wrapper created by the libtool script does two bad things:

Re: executable wrapper on mingw mangles arguments

2008-11-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: I haven't finished the testsuite addition yet. This fix requires such an addition. Ack. I think instead of Bruno's patch a much simpler fix is possible by including a different header: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user/27968/focus=28033 But that

Re: executable wrapper on mingw mangles arguments

2008-11-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: with all deliberate speed. Not sure what you mean here. If you mean applying the patch without a testsuite addition, then my humble reply is: if we had abandoned that strategy just longer ago, we'd have avoided a few embarrassing regressions. Not this. Rushing ahead

Re: executable wrapper on mingw mangles arguments

2008-11-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Bruno Haible wrote: This is a severe regression in libtool 2.x w.r.t. 1.5.26. On mingw, several of the gettext tests fail because the executable wrapper created by the libtool script does two bad things: 1) It converts argv[0] from a filename with backslashes to a filename with slashes.