[PATCH+Assign request][cygwin|mingw] Control where win32 DLLs get installed.

[ Please Cc me on replies, I'm not subbed up to list. ] Hi libtool team, Windows DLLs, unlike Linux DSOs, have to live in the bin directory (or elsewhere on $PATH), not the lib dir. Libtool handles this at --link time by setting the dlname in the generated .la file to a relative path

Re: [PATCH+Assign request][cygwin|mingw] Control where win32 DLLs get installed.

Dave Korn wrote: [ Please Cc me on replies, I'm not subbed up to list. ] Windows DLLs, unlike Linux DSOs, have to live in the bin directory (or elsewhere on $PATH), not the lib dir. Libtool handles this at --link time by setting the dlname in the generated .la file to a relative path

Re: [PATCH+Assign request][cygwin|mingw] Control where win32 DLLs get installed.

Charles Wilson wrote: [ snip ] Thanks for all the shell portability advice, it's pretty specialised stuff that I don't know all about; I'll incorporate your changes into the respin when I add the docs. I'm not sure -rpath is the right way to test, here. I know you're trying to avoid doing

Re: [PATCH+Assign request][cygwin|mingw] Control where win32 DLLs get installed.

Dave Korn wrote: Well, I did really want to make it a test of nothing other than the -bindir functionality, in fact it's more or less just a test of the corner cases for func_relative_path! Using -rpath seems to work as far as supplying an input value for $install_libdir and that's all I