Re: autoreconf misses ltmain.sh

2002-09-23 Thread Bruce Korb
Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > In my opinion it is prohibitive and stupid > > It's equally stupid to . I think everyone knows that autoreconf is not ready for prime time. >From someone who gets cranky when working code breaks because someone thought I shouldn't do things that way, let me s

Re: autoreconf misses ltmain.sh

2002-09-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 12:23:34PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > In my opinion it is prohibitive and stupid not to have a libtool release > that can properly interact with autoconf. It's equally stupid to release a version of autoconf which cannot properly interact with released versions of li

Re: [Mingw-users] Re: libbfd, libtool & Win32

2002-09-23 Thread Earnie Boyd
David Olofson wrote: > > That brings up another interesting point: If impgen was to be compiled > when installing libtool, wouldn't that result in the same problem? I > mean, impgen should only build when you're installing libtool for a cross > compiler - and then you're in that darn cross compil

Re: [Mingw-users] Re: libbfd, libtool & Win32

2002-09-23 Thread David Olofson
On Monday 23 September 2002 15:30, Earnie Boyd wrote: > David Olofson wrote: > > However, it's still a very bad idea to compile tools as part of the > > application build process. ;-) > > Right, if you want to install implib as part of distributable resource > when target == some win32 platform (C

Re: autoreconf misses ltmain.sh

2002-09-23 Thread Roger Leigh
Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > Ralf> http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/libtool-patches/2002-January/001659.html > > Ralf> .. which seems to indicate that libtool is the culprit. > Ralf> => There doesn't e

Re: [Mingw-users] Re: libbfd, libtool & Win32

2002-09-23 Thread Earnie Boyd
David Olofson wrote: > > However, it's still a very bad idea to compile tools as part of the > application build process. ;-) > Right, if you want to install implib as part of distributable resource when target == some win32 platform (Cygwin, MinGW, MSVC, etc.) fine, but don't create it in ever

Re: [Mingw-users] Re: libbfd, libtool & Win32

2002-09-23 Thread David Olofson
On Monday 23 September 2002 13:00, David Olofson wrote: > On Friday 20 September 2002 22:31, Guido Draheim wrote: [...] > > In > > fact, we have a set of function names for a given lib - in its > > symbol table. > > In an export table, I would say, as most clean Win32 DLLs don't export > symbols a

Re: [Mingw-users] Re: libbfd, libtool & Win32

2002-09-23 Thread David Olofson
On Friday 20 September 2002 22:31, Guido Draheim wrote: > David Olofson wrote: [...] > > How about building import libs from headers? (You need the headers to > > compile anyway...) > > Ahhm, not quite - some functions are exported only on a case-by-case > basis, and there are quite some different

Re: "Re: libbfd, libtool & Win32" and "Re: Building a MinGW GLib etc..."

2002-09-23 Thread Earnie Boyd
Max Bowsher wrote: > > Earnie Boyd wrote: > [ stuff about impgen ] > > So, why isn't dlltool being used? BTW, dllwrap is deprecated. > > > > Current versions of GCC require -shared in the link step to produce the > > dll. The -dll -mdll switches are deprecated. > > One of the things I ran into

Re: autoreconf misses ltmain.sh

2002-09-23 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Am Mon, 2002-09-23 um 10.49 schrieb Alexandre Duret-Lutz: > >>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > Ralf> http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/libtool-patches/2002-January/001659.html > > Ralf> .. which seems to indicate that libtool is the culprit. > Ralf> => There d

Re: autoreconf misses ltmain.sh

2002-09-23 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Ralf> http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/libtool-patches/2002-January/001659.html Ralf> .. which seems to indicate that libtool is the culprit. Ralf> => There doesn't exist any officially released version of libtool that Ralf> is usa