Got shared libraries to build with libtool on MinGW, but it was a struggle

2005-09-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
PLplot (http://plplot.sf.net) is a scientific plotting package that uses libtool (and autoconf and automake) to build the required libraries. Our primary platform is Linux, but we are gradually extending our builds to a large variety of other platforms using the autotools approach. Early on, we

Re: [rfc] keep LD_LIBRARY_PATH from tromping on libtool wrapped files

2005-09-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 15 September 2005 12:59 pm, Albert Chin wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:50:05PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 September 2005 11:36 pm, Albert Chin wrote: > > > If gcc/ld was used to build the new 'file' program, they would > > > have the same error as that generat

Re: [rfc] keep LD_LIBRARY_PATH from tromping on libtool wrapped files

2005-09-15 Thread Albert Chin
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:50:05PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 14 September 2005 11:36 pm, Albert Chin wrote: > > > If gcc/ld was used to build the new 'file' program, they would > > have the same error as that generated by libtool. Shouldn't > > libtool then try to mimic this beha