* NightStrike wrote on Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 07:09:21PM CET:
> On 11/6/07, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Can you add to that also AM_DLLTOOLFLAGS?
> >
> > It's been mentioned before: Automake currently does not use dlltool.
[...]
> The benefit of having it be part of Automake is that then I don't have
> to specify it on each line. The more stuff that is internal to
> automake that I can use, the easier maintaining an automake file is.
What you're really asking for here is support for some automatically
generated rules that use dlltool, right? How should such a rule look
like, what should it do portably(!), and why would a portable project
ever need such a rule when it could just use Libtool?
If you have to write your own (unportable) rules anyway, then really
there is nothing else that I see that could be done for you.
Or do you just want
AM_DLLTOOLFLAGS = @AM_DLLTOOLFLAGS@
put in every Makefile.in? You can already have that, just use AC_SUBST
in configure.ac.
> Now, you state that Automake currently doesn't use dlltool. I am
> guessing you mean that dlltool support and usage is provided via
> libtool, correct? Should this request go to libtool, instead? Would
> the libtool project be able to add the global options variable?
No. While libtool happens to set ${DLLTOOL}, it doesn't really use it
either. I think it used to at some point in the past.
I'm starting to be a bit puzzled. I simply don't know what you want.
Cheers,
Ralf
