Re: Confusing libtool behaviour on cygwin

2004-09-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Maarten Boekhold wrote: Bob Friesenhahn wrote: My understanding is that for non-module DLLs, the .dll file is installed in the bin directory so it is likely to be in the user's path. If the Then how does libtool decide whether a DLL is a (non)-module? The --module flag? (l

Re: Confusing libtool behaviour on cygwin

2004-09-14 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Maarten Boekhold wrote: >> The Makefile.am's for these plugins are all more or less the same. >> Yet, some plugins get installed as '$(libdir)/bin/cygX.dll', some >> as '$(libdir)/modules/cygX.dll', and others as >> '$(libdir)/modules/lib.

Re: Confusing libtool behaviour on cygwin

2004-09-14 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: My understanding is that for non-module DLLs, the .dll file is installed in the bin directory so it is likely to be in the user's path. If the Then how does libtool decide whether a DLL is a (non)-module? The --module flag? (looking through the sources... yes, those libs

Re: Confusing libtool behaviour on cygwin

2004-09-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Maarten Boekhold wrote: Hi all, I'm a little confused about how libtool (or maybe it's automake) behaves when used as 'libtool --mode=install' for a shared library *under cygwin*. I am in the process of porting XFCE (http://www.xfce.org) to cygwin/X. XFCE has various subpack

Confusing libtool behaviour on cygwin

2004-09-14 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Hi all, I'm a little confused about how libtool (or maybe it's automake) behaves when used as 'libtool --mode=install' for a shared library *under cygwin*. I am in the process of porting XFCE (http://www.xfce.org) to cygwin/X. XFCE has various subpackages, and a number of them use a plugin mech