Hi.
I'm trying to build https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mingw-w64-libunistring.
Libtool thinks that the installed dependency libiconv.dll.a has unknown type
and refuses to build libunistring dll.
The libtool script calls `file` internally to detect the type, but it
suppresses the error output which makes it hard to troubleshoot:
func_win32_libid ()
{
$debug_cmd
win32_libid_type=unknown
win32_fileres=`file -L $1 2>/dev/null`
case $win32_fileres in
If I call `file` directly I can see the error:
[il@arch lib]$ fakeroot file -L /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/lib/libiconv.dll.a
/usr/bin/fakeroot: line 178: 962263 Bad system call
FAKEROOTKEY=$FAKEROOTKEY LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PATHS" LD_PRELOAD="$LIB" "$@"
Yet make finishes successfully and an invalid package is built.
Is there any reason to ignore non-zero exit code from external programs called
by libtool? I don't understand.
