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

2006-02-14 Thread Olly Betts
I tried to search for previous references to this issue, but it's pretty much impossible to usefully search for "file"! Sorry if this is rehashing old discussions. A user reported a problem trying to build my libtool-ed project on cygwin. The problem turned out to be that cygwin apparently doesn'

exclusive static or shared

2006-02-14 Thread Christopher Hulbert
I have a number of directories most of which I ONLY want to build shared libraries from. There are a couple that I ONLY want static libraries. Is there a way to turn on/off shared/static libraries. I saw -static which would work IF both build_old_libs=yes. Is there any way to have -static set b

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

2006-02-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Olly, * Olly Betts wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 08:06:52PM CET: > I tried to search for previous references to this issue, but it's pretty much > impossible to usefully search for "file"! Sorry if this is rehashing old > discussions. It's not really, but there is a very similar bug report an

Re: call AC_DISABLE_SHARED "conditionally" for a certain host

2006-02-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ removing the autoconf list ] > * Florian Schricker wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 11:03:50AM CET: > > > > AC_CANONICAL_HOST > > case "$host" in > > *-*-linux* | *-*-darwin*) > > ;; > > *-*-mingw32*) > > AC_DISABLE_SHARED > > ;; > > esac > > > > Bu

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

2006-02-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Olly Betts wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 08:06:52PM CET: I tried to search for previous references to this issue, but it's pretty much impossible to usefully search for "file"! Sorry if this is rehashing old discussions. It's not really, but ther

libtool (alpha)

2006-02-14 Thread Julien Lecomte
I've installed the libtool alpha cvs build under MinGW. Configuration and install was made under mSys (after replacing config.{guess,sub}): ../alpha/configure --prefix=/usr make Of note: I configured and installed under mSys because under MinGW it fails (undefined reference to `lt_libltdl_