Re: Forbidden strings

2000-11-07 Thread Earnie Boyd
--- Akim Demaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexandre On Nov 6, 2000, Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just prefix the reserved autoconf variables with a `_' character? Alexandre autoconf used to use ju

Re: cygwin libtool breakage

2001-06-04 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: I _did_ have autoconf CVS HEAD at one point, I reverted to 2.13 to be in line with other users, and I haven't upgraded again yet. I don't recall this problem from back then.. if that helps at all :] Rob Hi Robert, Don't know if you follow the autoconf list but you

Re: [Mingw-users] Re: libbfd, libtool Win32

2002-09-20 Thread Earnie Boyd
Guido Draheim wrote: Just my point. It's nice that cygwin wants to emulate the unix behaviour to a degree that even data-symbols are im/exported in the usual manner, that's different with mingw-software where I do take the burden to make it ready to run in crippled environment, just to make

Re: Intel icc and shared libs

2002-09-21 Thread Earnie Boyd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: == bw == Bill Wendling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bw # How to pass a linker flag through the compiler. wl= bw to: bw # How to pass a linker flag through the compiler. wl=-Wl, bw That might help things... On the version of icc that I use,

Re: [Mingw-users] Re: libbfd, libtool Win32

2002-09-23 Thread Earnie Boyd
David Olofson wrote: However, it's still a very bad idea to compile tools as part of the application build process. ;-) Right, if you want to install implib as part of distributable resource when target == some win32 platform (Cygwin, MinGW, MSVC, etc.) fine, but don't create it in every

Re: [Mingw-users] Re: libbfd, libtool Win32

2002-09-23 Thread Earnie Boyd
David Olofson wrote: That brings up another interesting point: If impgen was to be compiled when installing libtool, wouldn't that result in the same problem? I mean, impgen should only build when you're installing libtool for a cross compiler - and then you're in that darn cross compiler

Re: [Mingw-users] Whats the latest on libtool and the stub dll libraries?

2002-09-24 Thread Earnie Boyd
Elizabeth Barham wrote: Hi, A while back, Bob mentioned running into some trouble linking a dll with the stub lib*.a libraries: http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/libtool/2002-June/006401.html and has contributed some patches to libtool (whether in regards to this I do not know).

Re: [Mingw-users] Whats the latest on libtool and the stub dll libraries?

2002-09-24 Thread Earnie Boyd
Elizabeth Barham wrote: Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not, totally, but it's being worked upon. I've joined the libtool list as well in order to help with resolving the issues with mingw32 host/build/target issues. Hopefully, others that have been actively working

Re: [Mingw-users] Whats the latest on libtool and the stub dll libraries?

2002-09-24 Thread Earnie Boyd
Oscar Fuentes wrote: Guido Draheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: '-lm' does not exist on win32, There is a libm.a on MinGW's lib directory. Seems it is a dummy library for those *nix builds that uses -lm. Oh, yes, I forgot about that. Should this be removed? Here's the contents: $ nm

Re: [Mingw-users] Whats the latest on libtool and the stub dll libraries?

2002-09-24 Thread Earnie Boyd
Hmm..., if libtool.m4 exists in the package, make sure you replace it with a copy from the CVS and execute aclocal again. Earnie. Elizabeth Barham wrote: Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not, totally, but it's being worked upon. I've joined the libtool list as well in order

Re: [Mingw-users] Whats the latest on libtool and the stub dll libraries?

2002-09-26 Thread Earnie Boyd
Elizabeth Barham wrote: This is just a simple report-in about the errors I mentioned having yesterday or the day before. The latest CVS libtool did not have any trouble and made the DLL fine. I'd also like to mention that the whole libtool seemed to work quicker than before. Thank you

Re: [Mingw-users] Whats the latest on libtool and the stub dll libraries?

2002-09-28 Thread Earnie Boyd
Elizabeth Barham wrote: Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, submit a proper patch against the CVS source to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for proper credit for the fix. Okay, I am satisfied with this and submit this patch for peer review. Please, use cvs diff -u3p. SYNOPSIS: Adds

Re: [Mingw-users] libtool and Mingw DLLs - bindir/libdir solution - requesting comments

2002-10-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
Max Bowsher wrote: I've thought of a way to reliably get bindir from a Makefile. In libtool.m4, the command line to invoke libtool is defined - we can add --bindir=$(bindir) to it, so that libtool knows explictly what the bindir is, even when overridden at 'make install' time. Any

Re: Shared C++ libraries on AIX

2002-10-07 Thread Earnie Boyd
Ossama Othman wrote: Hi, On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 07:01:04PM +0200, Martin Frydl wrote: progname=`$echo $0 | ${SED} 's%^.*/%%'` The problem is with SED variable, it is not defined anywhere in libtool script. I think the CVS version is currently unstable. Did you run aclocal in your

Re: Libtool 1.4.3

2002-10-09 Thread Earnie Boyd
Paolo Bonzini wrote: Wouldn't it be better to get libtool 1.5 out the door? The resources required to achieve a releasable product are similar and CVS libtool already contains most of the fixes that would go into a 1.4.3. But it also contains more features. Releasing 1.5 should be done

Re: MinGW libtool DLL failure

2002-10-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
Elizabeth Barham wrote: Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: g++ -shared c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/mingw32/2.95.3-6/../../../dllcrt2.o .libs/Blob.o .libs/BlobRef.o .libs/CoderInfo.o .libs/Color.o .libs/Drawable.o .libs/Exception.o .libs/Functions.o .libs/Geometry.o .libs/Image.o

Re: MinGW libtool DLL failure

2002-10-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Cygwin does not have these problems so we have a working example. As I've stated before, the workings parts are the same between MinGW and Cygwin with regard to producing the end result. AFA libtool is concerned the two are equal. Earnie.

Re: MinGW libtool DLL failure

2002-10-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Boehne, Robert wrote: The only thing that troubles me about the link line Bob posted is that a .dll is specified in the link, not the corresponding .lib. I'm not a Windows guru, but I thought that you never link to a dll directly, but to the .lib

Re: MinGW libtool DLL failure

2002-10-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
Earnie Boyd wrote: Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Boehne, Robert wrote: The only thing that troubles me about the link line Bob posted is that a .dll is specified in the link, not the corresponding .lib. I'm not a Windows guru, but I thought that you never link to a dll

Re: MinGW libtool DLL failure

2002-10-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
Earnie Boyd wrote: Earnie Boyd wrote: Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Boehne, Robert wrote: The only thing that troubles me about the link line Bob posted is that a .dll is specified in the link, not the corresponding .lib. I'm not a Windows guru, but I thought that you

Re: [Mingw-msys] Re: MinGW libtool DLL failure

2002-10-14 Thread Earnie Boyd
Well, shouldn't both use $(bindir) to install the dll into? Earnie. Bob Friesenhahn wrote: What directory should MinGW DLLs be installed in? Cygwin installs using the offset ../bin from the directory where the .dll.a file is installed. Should libtool behave the same way under MinGW?

Re: [Mingw-msys] Re: MinGW libtool DLL failure

2002-10-15 Thread Earnie Boyd
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Max Bowsher wrote: I floated an idea on how to get around that: Adjust the libtool invocation command (as determined in libtool.m4) to be libtool --bindir=$(bindir) (or perhaps with appropriate quoting). The idea being that when used from an

Re: [Mingw-msys] Re: Proposed libtool patch for MinGW

2002-10-15 Thread Earnie Boyd
Max Bowsher wrote: Bob Friesenhahn wrote: The MinGW patch uses libbase-number.dll for DLL naming, I thought the consensus was base-number.dll (no lib)? Or am I remembering wrongly? I prefer Bob's method. Earnie. ___ Libtool mailing list

Re: Deprecate AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL?

2002-10-25 Thread Earnie Boyd
Charles Wilson wrote: The one remaining niggle is this: you *must* specify -no-undefined, or libtool won't even attempt to build a DLL. I agree. But anyway, -no-undefined is a whole separate issue. As far as AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL, from the cygwin perspective it can be killed. However,

Re: [Mingw-msys] Re: MinGW libtool DLL failure

2002-10-11 Thread Earnie Boyd
Elizabeth Barham wrote: What is the MSYS-team's view on this? I'm fine with it and will support the change to a constant. Should that constant be adjusted based on w9x vs NT? Earnie. ___ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mingw-msys] Re: MinGW libtool DLL failure

2002-10-12 Thread Earnie Boyd
Elizabeth Barham wrote: Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm fine with it and will support the change [of the maximum command line length] to a constant. Should that constant be adjusted based on w9x vs NT? I would not think so; rather, it seems to me that a 8192 character command

Re: Library creation command

2002-10-27 Thread Earnie Boyd
Kevin Ryde wrote: Olaf Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shouldn't that be ARFLAGS, just as we have CFLAGS not C_FLAGS. That seems to be the canonical name. Libtool uses AR_FLAGS currently. Whichever is adopted it'd be nice for them to be the same. Then libtool is wrong. Based on the GNU

EXEEXT and -link

2002-10-30 Thread Earnie Boyd
There's a problem in that libtool directs the binary output to the .libs directory with a script built to execute the binary. The script does not and cannot have the .exe extention. So the question is, how to go about resolving the issue? The issue is the fact that the make target is

Re: Cygwin List O' Issues...[make install DESTDIR=]

2002-10-31 Thread Earnie Boyd
Charles Wilson wrote: Also, since this is probably an 'is_absolute' check, it should really be [\\/]* | ?:[\\/]* ) (cfr the File System Conventions chapter in the autoconf manual's portability section). This part won't work. It's possible we need a separate case for A:style paths.

Re: Wrong path at linking

2002-11-25 Thread Earnie Boyd
Szekely Izabella wrote: Hy! I use libtool 1.4.2, automake 1.4-p5, autoconf 2.13 on RedHat linux 7.3. You should at least try it with newest released versions of these softwares. Earnie. ___ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mingw-users] Re: Solving the relink exe's libtool problem[take 3]

2003-01-20 Thread Earnie Boyd
This patch passes my test. What do we need to do to get this accepted into libtool cvs HEAD? Earnie. Charles Wilson wrote: Okay, this version 1) puts lt-foo.c into .libs 2) libtool --mode=clean does the right thing --- cleans up foo, foo.exe, .libs/foo.exe, .libs/lt-foo.c, plus whatever

Re: libtool and cl

2003-03-30 Thread Earnie Boyd
Charles Wilson wrote: With respect to Bob, Gary's decision to remove it was correct at the time. Unmaintained, untested code should NOT simply be carried along because it might be needed later. It would have made development on actual used and tested platforms [e.g. cygwin/mingw] for the past

Re: 1.5 automatically generating C++, F77 tags

2003-06-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
Albert Chin wrote: I don't have a problem requiring AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_F77, or AM_PROG_GCJ before AC_PROG_LIBTOOL. Anyone see this as a problem? Reading through the thread, AC_REQUIRE kept coming to my mind, so no I don't see a problem. Earnie.

Re: Cyclic dependencies

2003-06-13 Thread Earnie Boyd
Thomas Maier wrote: Sigh. It's not a perfect world. Quoting myself: I guess as a linux-only user I am kind of ignorant or, well, at least a newbie to portability things. After having spent days reading about that stuff I already suspected linux does things in a rather modern way. But I didn't

Re: Building static-only or shared-only libraries on a per targetbasis

2003-08-04 Thread Earnie Boyd
But what if I want both? Earnie. ___ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool

Re: Building static-only or shared-only libraries on a per targetbasis

2003-08-04 Thread Earnie Boyd
Ralph Schleicher wrote: Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But what if I want both? Do nothing special, its the default libtool behavior. If you want to ensure that both kinds of libraries are built for a package, check for enable_shared=yes and enable_static=yes at configure time. My

Re: Creating lock file for compilers that don't support -c -o

2003-08-26 Thread Earnie Boyd
Paul Jarc wrote: Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Creating a symbolic link requires testing for an existing file, and then (if the file does not exist) creating a new file, and a directory entry to reference it. This requires multiple network transactions with an opportunity for

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-28 Thread Earnie Boyd
Oh, to the ode of creating new worms... Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 07:26:20PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: Updating to any later version of Libtool is the same amount of work, whether it be the Debian-patched version or not. Most of the time, when build failures occur,

Re: Version numbering

2003-09-30 Thread Earnie Boyd
Scott James Remnant wrote: Not sure whether it's a concern, but generally most packaging systems (RPM springs to mind) do not allow a '-' in the package's upstream version. It's only a concern to the RPM users and maintainers. If it's a CVS snapshot for the next version increment just timestamp

Re: GNU Libtool 1.5.2 released

2004-01-29 Thread Earnie Boyd
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Autoconf now performs two levels of header tests. One level is to check that the header file exists, while the other is to ensure that it can be entirely preprocessed correctly. Probably /lib/cpp is used because it is more work to figure out how to use the compiler as a

Re: MinGW link against an MS Windows import library

2004-04-14 Thread Earnie Boyd
Tim Van Holder wrote: Bill Jones wrote: So the basic question is how do I specify a static import library with a *.lib extension to be used by libtool for resolving the symbols provided by a non-libtool DLL when building a dependent DLL with libtool? The trivial solution is of course to

Re: MinGW link against an MS Windows import library

2004-04-14 Thread Earnie Boyd
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Bill Jones wrote: I have considered this but do not see it as a practical solution. I do not think that it should be the responsibility of every developer to make a copy of a file simply because the extension is not what libtool likes. The .lib