At one point there was some discussion about certain missing programs on
mingw/msys:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=13069136
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02115.html
specifically, join and paste. These programs are now available as an
additional download for msys users:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.msys/3741/match=
join, paste, file, mktemp
as well as an updated (1.4.7) version of m4:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.msys/3740/match=
In each case, these are meant to be used with the current (1.0.10)
Msys/mingw development environment. There is a full update to the msys
environment in the works (1.0.11) which will include the complete
coreutils (which, in turn, includes join/paste/fold/split) as part of
its distribution -- but the 1.0.11 system is only in "snapshot" state
right now.
So it seems to me that libtool could now begin assuming the presence of
these tools (join/paste), just as it now assumes the presence of
autoconf/automake/fold/split/... This may require an additional
download on the part of msys-1.0.10 users -- but once 1.0.11 is released
not even that will be required.
--
Chuck
