Re: dll names on windows

2007-04-14 Thread Max Bowsher
Bob Rossi wrote: I've recently converted pcre's (http://www.pcre.org/) build system to use the autotools. The previous stable version of libtool, pcre-7.0, used to create dll's on mingw. It would create $ ls .libs/*.dll

Bug in documentation about how to update -version-info?

2006-07-17 Thread Max Bowsher
I sent the below to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but it's been a month with no response, so now I'm trying [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead: Max Bowsher wrote: Looking at the documentation about how to update -version-info: 1. Start with version information of `0:0:0' for each libtool library. 2

Bug in documentation about how to update -version-info?

2006-06-14 Thread Max Bowsher
Looking at the documentation about how to update -version-info: 1. Start with version information of `0:0:0' for each libtool library. 2. Update the version information only immediately before a public release of your software. More frequent updates are unnecessary, and only

Re: Speeding up libtool

2005-03-15 Thread Max Bowsher
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: for your projects. For best results on Cygwin, you should probably configure (with libtool HEAD) like CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ash lt_ECHO='printf %s' /bin/ash configure [...] (replace /bin/ash with the path to Cygwin's Almquist shell clone). That path would be /bin/sh, so it's

What is the estimated timeline towards 2.0?

2004-09-05 Thread Max Bowsher
What is the estimated timeline towards 2.0? Max. ___ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool

Re: Réf. : Re: ltmain.sh and configure

2003-09-09 Thread Max Bowsher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Max, Sorry for the mistake but in fact I invoke libtoolize -f -c' and 'automake-1.7 -a -c '! Anyway, I get a new ltmain.sh, the one is stored in my libtool (1.4.3) directory. So, either ltmain.sh is bad in libtool-1.4.3 (I don't think so) or the source file

Re: Réf. : Re: Réf. : Re: ltmain.sh and configure

2003-09-09 Thread Max Bowsher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Ok Max. Now I remember also that I had to do 'aclocal-1.7 -I ./m4 ...' and according to the libiconv developper, he use slightly modified libtool1.5 files. That's the reason why I get a serial 47. So, I suppose I have to update aclocal and automake to maybe 1.8

Re: linking dynamic lib with static one.

2003-09-05 Thread Max Bowsher
J. Ali Harlow wrote: On 2003.09.04 09:45 Alexander Kogan wrote: Hi! I build DLL with mingw/automake/autoconf/libtool. But this dll depends on external static lib, and libtool doesn't produce dll, but say that it will be built when I compile program with this library. But I use this dll in

Re: How to disable relink on install?

2003-06-29 Thread Max Bowsher
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo Alex, I'm using libtool 1.4.2 on a redhat 8.0 machine and when do a make install in my project libtool relinks all my libs and binaries. How can I disable this? I never run my binaries from the build area, only from the installed prefix. Linking a large C++

Re: libtool and cl

2003-03-29 Thread Max Bowsher
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Robert Boehne wrote: Braden, For libltdl to work, you'd have to have Windows declspec(__dllimport) and declspec(__dllexport) applied properly, which isn't currently done. As far as libname.lib It used to be supported by libltdl, but when GCC

[Bug] CC=gcc -someoption loses the -someoption in untagged configuration (Works for tagged configuration)

2002-12-04 Thread Max Bowsher
Hi - Subject says it all, really. The -someoption isn't present in the untagged CC= in the generated libtool. (In is in LTCC=, incidentally.) All works ok with a tagged (e.g. CXX) configuration. I've been working around this with this adhoc patch - mostly created by educated guessing than a true

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

2002-10-15 Thread Max Bowsher
Earnie Boyd wrote: 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

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

2002-10-15 Thread Max Bowsher
Guido Draheim wrote: Would bindir be an environment variable if libtool is being executed from make? If not, setting a variable in the libtool.m4 that configure sets works. I prefer that over a switch, with a default value for the variable of ../bin. If bindir is passed to libtool through

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

2002-10-15 Thread Max Bowsher
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Max Bowsher wrote: So we conditionalize all this so it only activates on Windows. There is a fundamental flaw with this logic. Sorry to dissapoint you, but most open source software using libtool does not originate from the Windows environment

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

2002-10-15 Thread Max Bowsher
Earnie Boyd wrote: The Makefile sets LIBTOOL := bindir=$(bindir) $(SHELL) $(top_builddir)/libtool Then: Test for the existance of bindir in the libtool script, if it doesn't exist set it to ../bin if it does exist the Makefile has passed it to libtool via an environment variable. This

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

2002-10-15 Thread Max Bowsher
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Max Bowsher wrote: Earnie Boyd wrote: The Makefile sets LIBTOOL := bindir=$(bindir) $(SHELL) $(top_builddir)/libtool Then: Test for the existance of bindir in the libtool script, if it doesn't exist set it to ../bin if it does exist

Re: Proposed libtool patch for MinGW

2002-10-15 Thread Max Bowsher
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: The attached patch to FSF CVS libtool is intended to make libtool (mostly) behave as it does for Cygwin when executed with MinGW. It consists of contributions from Elizabeth Barham, and my own efforts. The DLLs are installed to $(libdir)/../bin as they currently are

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

2002-10-15 Thread Max Bowsher
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Would this part from Automake-generated Makefiles have any impact on the proposal? # Tell versions [3.59,3.63) of GNU make to not export all variables. # Otherwise a system limit (for SysV at least) may be exceeded.

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

2002-10-15 Thread Max Bowsher
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? Max. ___ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2002-10-14 Thread Max Bowsher
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Earnie Boyd wrote: Well, shouldn't both use $(bindir) to install the dll into? What would be nice except that I don't believe libtool is provided with this information at run-time. It acts like a traditional install program. The Cygwin folks

Re: MinGW libtool DLL failure

2002-10-11 Thread Max Bowsher
Elizabeth Barham wrote: This patch allowed libMagick++ to compile on my machine. The one thing that concerns me is the name of the import library is hard-coded ${lib}.a, which is okay in that the import library looks like qqq.dll.a but Max has something going about putting DLLs with

libtool/MinGW DLLs patch - tidied up section 2

2002-09-18 Thread Max Bowsher
I am tidying and explaining my patch bit by bit. Here is the second chunk. A libtool expert needs to check Hunk 2. See my comments below Once section 1 and 2 have been pronounced OK, they can be commited, as they are just groundwork for the main chunk of the patch, and can stand alone. Max.

Re: [Mingw-users] Re: Re: libbfd, libtool Win32 and Re: Building a MinGW GLibetc...

2002-09-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Guido Draheim wrote: (A) the sys_lib_search_path spec gets hardcoded to the cygwin path. no go on mingw cross. $CC -print-search-dirs rules. I wish I knew why this hack is required on Cygwin (B) final $dlname to ../bin/$dlname - interesting way to do about this but probably

Re: Re: libbfd, libtool Win32 and Re: Building a MinGW GLib etc...

2002-09-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Guido Draheim wrote: How old may a gcc/binutils pair be? My oldest crosscompilers are gcc 2.95.3 and ld --version reports 2.11.90.8. And for all I know, these are in fact the oldest versions around, no one want to go back beyond, I guess. Is that enough, Max? Test: $ echo

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

2002-09-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Guido Draheim wrote: I am not that knowing about the actual backgrounds, but to me it did look as if one can not be sure about the dll.a format, so that one does not trust it. Unlike cygwin, it is much more likely that mingw binds with dlls *not* compiled by mingw gcc but from another

libtool/MinGW DLLs patch - tidied up section 1

2002-09-17 Thread Max Bowsher
I am tidying and explaining my patch bit by bit. Here is the first chunk, including the merge of the Cygwin-local changes to libtool (not done by me). Hunks 1 2 should be fine. Hunk 3 is purely the addition of a comment, which you may prefer to leave out on the grounds of unnecessary bloat.