----- Original Message -----
From: "Akim Demaille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "edward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 6:21 AM
Subject: Re: ok, new libtool for cygwin updates
> "edward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > cond3.test fails for three reasons.
>
> Thanks, the fix has been applied.
>
> > 3) cond3.test has an incorrect comparison test function (the sed
script
> > skips a line!) sorry, i'm not a big fan of sed. oh well.
>
> I had reworked the snippet in the meanwhile. It should be ok now.
>
> > > FAIL: pr19.test
> >
> > pr19.test fails for two reasons.
> >
> > 1) foo.exe isn't cleaned properly (automake.in patch enclosed as
> > automake-cygwin-exeext.patch)
> >
> > --- automake.in.orig Sat Mar 10 07:14:42 2001
> > +++ automake.in Sat Mar 10 07:15:21 2001
> > @@ -1048,7 +1048,7 @@
> > # If OBJEXT/EXEEXT were not set in configure.in, do it, it
> > # simplifies our task, and anyway starting with Autoconf 2.50, it
> > # will always be defined, and this code will be dead.
> > - $output_vars .= "EXEEXT =\n"
> > + $output_vars .= "EXEEXT = \@EXEEXT\@\n"
>
> No, we cannot do that. We precisely issue this line when we have not
> seen that AC_EXEEXT was used, so we cannot depend EXEEXT. We need to
> understand why it failed in pr19. I suppose you are not running Unix
> here?
ah, point taken. until autoconf 2.5 is released, how about:
--- orig/automake.in.orig Mon Mar 12 06:44:59 2001
+++ automake.in Mon Mar 12 07:44:57 2001
@@ -1048,8 +1048,17 @@
# If OBJEXT/EXEEXT were not set in configure.in, do it, it
# simplifies our task, and anyway starting with Autoconf 2.50, it
# will always be defined, and this code will be dead.
- $output_vars .= "EXEEXT =\n"
- unless $seen_exeext;
+ unless($seen_exeext)
+ {
+ if ($^O =~ /(cygwin|MSWin32)/)
+ {
+ $output_vars .= "EXEEXT = .exe\n";
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ $output_vars .= "EXEEXT = \n";
+ }
+ }
$output_vars .= "OBJEXT = o\n"
unless $seen_objext;
while this patch offends me, at least it will allow testing, etc. to
continue until autoconf 2.5 comes out.
cheers,
edward
