Charles wrote: > The libtool-devel package contains the 1.5.6 version of libtool, a > cross-platform tool for building libraries (shared and otherwise). It > enables relatively trouble-free builds of DLLs on cygwin and mingw.
> Changes from 1.5-3: > o routine update to latest release version > o Includes Gerrit's "expat" fix -- but only the first part of the patch: > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg01559.html > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg01283.html > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg01247.html Hurray;) Many thanks. OTOH I still need to use the second part of the patch if I don't want to patch several Makefile.am's all the time... > o DESIGN DECISION: (this is a a change from pre-20021111 behavior) > libtool will refuse to create a shared library if any of its > dependencies are available only as static archives. DLLs may > only depend on other DLLs (*) > > > (*) This is a good idea. But, we need workarounds for the standard > runtime libs like libgcc.a, libstdc++.a, etc. These workarounds are > implemented in this libtool release. This is great, now I don't need to use `pass_all' all the time when building C++ shared libraries (e.g. libextractor). BTW, it seems that not all announcements are going through to the cygwin list, I'm missing gettext and autoconf announcements and I'm also missing the gtk2-x11 announcement, or is just me who is not receiving all the mail from the list? 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/
