Re: Preloading without .la

2006-03-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ Let's move this to libtool-patches Note also the list server may not come back up for a few days. ] Hi Pierre, Sorry for the delay. * Pierre Ossman wrote on Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 05:30:22PM CET: > I've put together a suggestion (against 1.5 branch, but the difference > shouldn't be that big

Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed

2006-03-04 Thread Charles Wilson
Olly Betts wrote: Does the cygwin packaging chooser have the concept of dependencies? Yes. I've only used it briefly once some time ago, and I can't remember much about it. But if it does, then libtool should really depend on file. The official libtool package for cygwin (e.g. the one you

Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed

2006-03-04 Thread Olly Betts
On 2006-02-24, Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Olly Betts wrote: >> I've only used it briefly once some time ago, and I can't remember >> much about it. But if it does, then libtool should really depend on >> file. > > The official libtool package for cygwin (e.g. the one you get if yo

Re: Unhelpful behaviour on Cygwin when "file" isn't installed

2006-03-04 Thread Brian Dessent
Olly Betts wrote: > I don't think there's an obvious dependency cygwin could add to help > this (unless perhaps something rather arbitrary like making 'make' > depend on 'file'). So libtool (or rather packages it generates) > probably does need to cope with file not being installed (or perhaps >