On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Paarvai Naai <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ozkan, > >> Libtool < 2.2.6/2.2.7 may not detect w64 libraries properly so the >> linkage would fail. Please look at what the patch does: it just updates >> the pe-x86_64 magic that is already in libtool 2.2.7. > > While I have been developing code and compiling open source projects > for a long time, I am not so familiar with exact flow for libtool (and
I don't say that I'm much familiar with it either ;) > automake and friends). This might be for the better. :) > Consequently, the patch was not (and still is not) so obvious to me. > > My understanding is that the patch is required for building target > code that links to pe-x86_64 libraries when the build process is tied > to libtool. At the end of the day, once I build binutils, gcc, and > mingw-w64-crt, I use my -w64- cross-compiler with a build system that For them, it is not necessary, they have a properly updated libtool (and mingw-w64-crt doesn't even use libtool) > is not dependent on libtool. Therefore, my guess is that the patch is > not necessary, but applying it would not cause any harm either (of > course). Is this correct? > Yes > Thanks, > Paarvai > -- Ozkan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
