Here is one response from the bug-libtool people. Should I rework the Cygwin
patch to just go to configure.in?
----- Forwarded message from Max Bowsher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
From: "Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Kayvan A. Sylvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Addition for Cygwin
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 23:05:43 -0000
Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:
>> Hello libtool maintainers,
>>
>> I am one of the people working on the LyX project. In order to get
>> LyX
>> to compile with the latest Cygwin, I had to make the following patch
>> to libtool.m4.
>>
>> I am wondering if anything like this is in the upcoming
>> autoconf/automake/libtool tool chain already. Is this something that
>> should be done?
No. Not all projects want these settings. The proper place for this in the
configure.in of individual projects (see glib/gtk+ for an example use of
conditional -mms-bitfields/-fnative-struct).
Max.
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