Re: GNU Automake 1.10.1 released -- bug #516 is still there

2008-01-22 Thread Peter Breitenlohner
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: I'm pleased to announce the release of Automake 1.10.1. Automake is a tool Very good, BUT more than a year ago I filed a bug report (automake#516), after sending an email some month earlier: automake generated Makefiles install manpages from

linking with extern DLLs under Cygwin

2008-01-22 Thread Denis Chancogne
Hi, I would like to make a patch to build php under Cygwin, but there is one problem with libtool. When you pass to it the option -l, it search only libraries of type lib* to check that /lib/lib.dll.a exists (interface to dll). So it doesn't want to link with icu libraries because when you instal

Re: linking with extern DLLs under Cygwin

2008-01-22 Thread Peter Rosin
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 10:40:43AM +0100, Denis Chancogne wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to make a patch to build php under Cygwin, but there is one > problem with libtool. > > When you pass to it the option -l, it search only libraries of > type lib* > to check that /lib/lib.dll.a exists (interfa

Re: linking with extern DLLs under Cygwin

2008-01-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Peter Rosin wrote: > It is not terribly hard to create those import libraries semi- > manually. dlltool can do most of the work. Is that not an > option for you? That or simply a symlink libfoo.dll.a -> ../bin/cygfoo-n.dll. In the official Cygwin distro all devel packages contain import libs, so

Re: libtool finding wrong version of library

2008-01-22 Thread John Cartwright
Thanks for your suggestion Peter. That didn't seem to make a difference assuming that having the new libtool first in the PATH would cause it to be used in the build. I'll wait until 1.5.26 is available and try again. -- john Peter O'Gorman wrote: John Cartwright wrote: Hello All, I'm