Hi Reini, >> There is also a thread n the archives where Charles explains why the >> pass_all flag is not default for Cygwin.
> yes, that would be interesting to read, because I'm wondering what > prevents libtool on cygwin to ignore the duplication of efforts > providing PIC (in .libs) and nonPIC objects, where both are effectively > the same. And then refuses to build on false assumptions. > (PIC != non-PIC on cygwin) > Maybe some src defines are in effect for the .libs/ which could hurt. > (or did hurt before the improved binutils) > So far I found nothing, but charles has a lot of messages in the archive > to explore. I'll start with the libtool demo's from the src packages. > mdemo-shared looks promising. Search for 'pass_all +Charles' via Google. > for now I live this ugly workaround: > extract the objects from the static lib, > copy them (as fake) to the PIC objects, and build my module. That is likely the same as if you would use pass_all, but pass_all is cheap, just a small fix in libtool.m4 or if you prefer to not modify system libs then fix it in aclocal.m4 before running autoconf. 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/
