Spaces in path names

2006-01-12 Thread Roger While
Per Subject. Libtool 1.5.22 I found some earlier mails about this from 2005. Is anything being/going to be done about this ? This is a real pain on most Cygwin machines where users are likely to have spaces in path names (eg. in HOME - "Roger While"). Roger While

Re: Spaces in path names

2006-01-12 Thread Roger While
Hi Ralf, Well, how ARE you supposed to get around this ? Here's an excerpt : HOME is /cygdrive/c/Dokumente und Einstellungen/Roger While build directory is $HOME/open-cobol-0.33 Interesting is that previously the shared library has been succesfully created. (in libcob) - So libtool is obviously d

Re: Spaces in path names

2006-01-12 Thread Roger While
Actually on Cygwin (and MingW) this whole thing is caused by the following lines in ltmain.sh : -L*) dir=`$echo "X$arg" | $Xsed -e 's/^-L//'` # We need an absolute path. case $dir in [\\/]* | [A-Za-z]:[\\/]*) ;; *) absdir=`cd "$dir" && pwd`

libtool documentation license: Debian, the GFDL and the DFSG.

2006-01-12 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Hi, As some of you probably know, Debian has concerns about the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) being a free license, and that it does not meet the requirements for the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG). Debian has been talking to the FSF about this since 2001 without any progress. Th

Re: libtool documentation license: Debian, the GFDL and the DFSG.

2006-01-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Kurt, * Kurt Roeckx wrote on Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:06:41PM CET: > > I'm asking if it would be possible to dual license the > documentation under the GPL, or some other license, so that it is > compatible with the DFSG. While I would certainly favor such a solution, I must admit that I don't

Re: Spaces in path names

2006-01-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Roger, * Roger While wrote on Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:06:51AM CET: > > I found some earlier mails about this from 2005. > Is anything being/going to be done about this ? > This is a real pain on most Cygwin machines > where users are likely to have spaces in > path names (eg. in HOME - "Roger

Re: Spaces in path names

2006-01-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Roger While wrote: Hi Ralf, Well, how ARE you supposed to get around this ? Here's an excerpt : HOME is /cygdrive/c/Dokumente und Einstellungen/Roger While build directory is $HOME/open-cobol-0.33 Due to the many layers of shell scripting in libtool, supporting spaces in

Re: Spaces in path names

2006-01-12 Thread Howard Chu
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Roger While wrote: Hi Ralf, Well, how ARE you supposed to get around this ? Here's an excerpt : HOME is /cygdrive/c/Dokumente und Einstellungen/Roger While build directory is $HOME/open-cobol-0.33 Due to the many layers of shell scripting in libtool

Problem with "fixed" -static flag

2006-01-12 Thread Gary Kumfert
Hi, I'm learning that libtool 1.5.22 "fixed" the -static flag so that static libraries are linked in the build directory, but shared libraries in the install directory. But I don't understand why this is considered "better" behavior. The side-effect is that libtool behaves very differently betwe

Re: libtool documentation license: Debian, the GFDL and the DFSG.

2006-01-12 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:33:17PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Kurt, > > * Kurt Roeckx wrote on Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:06:41PM CET: > > > > I'm asking if it would be possible to dual license the > > documentation under the GPL, or some other license, so that it is > > compatible with the

Re: Spaces in path names

2006-01-12 Thread Edward Maros
Roger While wrote: Actually on Cygwin (and MingW) this whole thing is caused by the following lines in ltmain.sh : -L*) dir=`$echo "X$arg" | $Xsed -e 's/^-L//'` # We need an absolute path. case $dir in [\\/]* | [A-Za-z]:[\\/]*) ;; *) absdi

Re: libtool documentation license: Debian, the GFDL and the DFSG.

2006-01-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Kurt Roeckx wrote: I know very little of how the FSF works. From what I understand the FSF is copyright holder, and all contributers have assigned copyright to the FSF. The copyright statement also only mentions the FSF. The documentation does mentions 4 authors. It woul

Re: Spaces in path names

2006-01-12 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:06:51AM +0100, Roger While wrote: > Per Subject. > Libtool 1.5.22 > > I found some earlier mails about this from 2005. > Is anything being/going to be done about this ? > This is a real pain on most Cygwin machines > where users are likely to have spaces in > path names

Re: libtool documentation license: Debian, the GFDL and the DFSG.

2006-01-12 Thread Bruce Korb
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Kurt Roeckx wrote: I know very little of how the FSF works. From what I understand the FSF is copyright holder, and all contributers have assigned copyright to the FSF. The copyright statement also only mentions the FSF. The documentation does men

1.5.22 fails to configure on AIX 5.1

2006-01-12 Thread Howard Chu
Something in AIX's /bin/sh is misbehaving; the output from setting -xv on the shell shows chunks of the script are actually missing. If bash is used to invoke the top-level configure script, that seems to run OK but then the libltdl directory also fails unless you set CONFIG_SHELL to bash as we

Re: Spaces in path names

2006-01-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Edward Maros wrote on Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:19:43PM CET: > Roger While wrote: > > >Actually on Cygwin (and MingW) this whole thing is caused > >by the following lines in ltmain.sh : > > > > -L*) > >dir=`$echo "X$arg" | $Xsed -e 's/^-L//'` > ># We need an absolute path. > >

Re: Spaces in path names

2006-01-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Kurt, * Kurt Roeckx wrote on Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:38:38PM CET: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:06:51AM +0100, Roger While wrote: > > > > I found some earlier mails about this from 2005. > > Is anything being/going to be done about this ? > > This is a real pain on most Cygwin machines > > wher