Peter Rosin wrote: > > When configure.ac does not contain then AM_PROG_CC_C_O macro, > > what do you do? Add it manually? ... > > In that case, as stated above, you can just use compile/ar-lib as you'd > use cccl, the macros only trigger the use of the scripts when they are > needed (and the inclusion of the scripts in the package). If you know > that you need them it's not wrong to point to them from the start (as I > did for AR in above example configure invocation).
Thanks for this advice. I am starting to build gnulib testdirs with $ ./configure --host=i586-pc-winnt --prefix=/usr/local/msvc \ CC="$HOME/msvc/compile cl -nologo" \ CFLAGS="-MD" \ CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/msvc/include" \ LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/msvc/lib" \ LD="link" \ NM="dumpbin -symbols" \ STRIP=":" \ AR="$HOME/msvc/ar-lib lib" \ RANLIB=":" \ and at least configure runs fine and gives reasonable results. (Here $HOME/msvc/compile and $HOME/msvc/ar-lib are taken from the tip of the msvc branch in Automake.) > Libtool 2.4 should do How is that possible? Libtool contains special code for the platforms cygwin* mingw* cegcc* pw32* interix* but none for winnt* nor for windows* I think the $host_os value winnt should be treated similarly to mingw32 or pw32, no? Bruno -- In memoriam Luigi Pasquale <http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Luigi_Pasquale>