Maarten wrote: > Hi all,
> Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >> Maarten wrote: >>>Now that GTK2 is in the package tree, I thought I'd give building XFCE a >>>try. This package depends on 'Disk based hashes' (dbh), which needs to >>>be built as a shared library. Dbh uses libtool in its build process. >> You don't need .def files on Cygwin. Just add -no-undefined to >> libxyz_LDFLAGS. > Of course Gerrit is right. Adding this works. *But only if I use a copy > of /usr/autotool/devel/bin/libtool*. I.e. I always have to do: > autoreconf > ./configure .... > cp /usr/autotool/devel/bin/libtool . > make && make install > However, the reported version number of this libtool is the same as the > one created through configure (autoreconf?) (1.5.6). Is the version > distributed with cygwin a patched version? If so, is there an official > release of the autotools that include those patches? If so I'd like to > try to convince the XFCE developers to upgrade... The libtool used by autoreconf should be from /usr/autotool/devel/... You can be sure if you use `autoreconf --install --verbose --force` since older autoreconf versions doesn't like these options. The latest libtool release works ok on Cygwin for the most source packages. There are some limitations. AFAIK, the libtool-devel includes some post 1.5 libtool-cvs version, so everything included there is also in the latest release. > Finally, (I know, not really the correct list for this): I'm only > vaguely familiar with the whole autotools toolchain, and I was wondering > if somebody could show me some boiler plate configure.ac/Makefile.am > content so that I can forward the XFCE developers a patch to > conditionally include '-no-undefined' to the libtool invocation in the > XFCE build process... Look at the glib / gtk+ / atk / pango configure.in files, there are some nice hacks for this, I also patched libextractor's configure.in recently to include some conditionals for Cygwin (already in the latest release available). But I recommend to always use -no-undefined. Works on Linux too;) Gerrit -- =^..^= http://nyckelpiga.de/donate.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
