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

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