A Dilluns, 9 de març de 2009, Vincent Torri va escriure: > On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > A Dilluns, 9 de març de 2009, carlo.bramix va escriure: > >> Hello! > >> > >>> Apparently if you generate a configure file on unix > >>> from configure.in with a recent autoconf, it > >>> does not produce a configure script that works on > >>> MINGW+MSYS. > >> > >> I just rebuild the configure scripts under Debian 5.0 (stable, not > >> testing or unstable) with colinux and everything works fine when I > >> compile under mingw+msys. > >> > >> Although all my efforts, I was never able to make autotools working > >> under msys. Instead, autotools under cygwin normally worked fine but, > >> for some reasons that I could not understand very well, I remember that > >> I had some troubles with CR-LF somewhere. So I decided to (re)build the > >> scripts under linux: in that manner I'm sure that everything is correct > >> in every part. > >> > >> I downloaded Poppler 0.10.4. > >> I deleted generated files. > >> I rebuild the scripts and the makefiles. > >> I compiled and installed poppler. Success. > >> > >> autogen.sh under linux said: > >> > >> autoconf 2.61 > >> automake 1.10.1 > >> libtool 1.5.26 > >> > >> These packages are not that old, perhaps you have really "too new" > >> packages. I believe it would be better to rebuild the scripts with a > >> stable distribution, at least we are sure that it will work on > >> everything. Anyways, at the moment I believe it is a good idea to leave > >> the AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL macro included into configure script, this will > >> ensure the compatibility with the old, with the stable and the > >> testing/unstable. Personally, I believe that forcing it is a regression > >> because lot of software have not it declared in their configure scripts > >> but they could be already compiled as shared without problems, but this > >> is just my opinion. > > > > It's an autotools regression/feature, if you look a bit around the > > internet you'll see the mingw people complaining to the autotools people > > (i think the "problem" is really in libtool) for the change. > > > > BTW i'm now using > > autoconf 2.61 > > automake 1.10.1 > > libtool 2.2.4 > > if you want to build dll on windows with msys/mingw you either *have to*: > > 1) use AC_PROG_LIBTOOL and call AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL before and add > -no-undefined to libtool flag in the Makefile.am that build the library. > This way is considered deprecated since 2004-02-20 (in automake 1.9b). > > 2) or use LT_INIT([win32-dll]) and add -no-undefined to libtool flag in > the Makefile.am that build the library. LT_INIT was introduced after > libtool > 1.5. > > As poppler development has certainly begun after 2004 (poppler 0.2 was > released in 2005, there is no date for 0.1), I think that you can safely > use the new libtool calls.
I'd better leave it as it is now if it's working. Albert > > Vincent Torri _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
