FYI: fix bogus merge (Libtool HEAD)

2005-07-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Patrick, Regarding your recent problem report[1] with a m4 loop in CVS autotools: While I can reproduce it over here, I have not found its cause yet. But it turned up another bug in Libtool CVS HEAD, presumably caused by a bogus CVS merge. Checked in the patch below as obvious. (This bug sho

RE: MSYS+MSVC for libtool branch-2-0, take 2

2005-07-11 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Peter Ekberg wrote: You don't seem to understand what's going on... On MSYS there is no "official" way to convert a posix path to a win32 path (like cygpath on Cygwin). But if you execute any executable outside of the MSYS /bin or /usr/bin directories (and perhaps other place

RE: MSYS+MSVC for libtool branch-2-0, take 2

2005-07-11 Thread Peter Ekberg
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Peter Ekberg wrote: > > You don't seem to understand what's going on... On MSYS there > > is no "official" way to convert a posix path to a win32 path > > (like cygpath on Cygwin). But if you execute any executable > > outside of the MSYS /bin or /usr/b

RE: MSYS+MSVC for libtool branch-2-0, take 2

2005-07-11 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Peter Ekberg wrote: Yes, I came across that one, but it seemed heavy handed for the job at hand. I think my approach is neater, but I'm biased :-) In what way is your script better than my version that simply uses the cmd script from MSYS? I am not sure that my script is "