Re: [PATCH 3/6] use documented m4sh interfaces

2008-11-08 Thread Paolo Bonzini
> I know you mentioned (in 7/6) that you can turn on enough porting hacks to > allow running with Autoconf 2.60; does that include this patch? No, the porting hacks allow *building* with Autoconf 2.60. This patch is just to stop using now-deprecated interfaces. Where it touches libtool.m4, it

Re: [PATCH 4/6] tweak to config.status->libtool quoting (correct?)

2008-11-08 Thread Paolo Bonzini
> This might be a bit easier to write (and thus review) if we used AS_ESCAPE > rather than supplying all the \ ourselves (perhaps as an independent patch > prior to this one). s/might be/would have been/; s/we used/Libtool had been using/ in other words, that's a separate cleanup IMNSHO. Paol

Re: [PATCH 6/6] use printf as $ECHO

2008-11-08 Thread Paolo Bonzini
>> M4SH_VERBATIM([[ > > Hmm. This is a nicer name for m4_echo, for how it is being used; maybe it is > time to migrated it into the Autoconf manual (perhaps under the name > AS_VERBATIM)? Maybe, yes. >> : ${CP="cp -f"} >> -: ${ECHO="echo"} >> +: ${ECHO=$as_echo} > > This is delving a bit

Re: libtool(20080421), mingw-cross, check-local fail for DESTDIR tests

2008-11-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Roumen Petrov wrote: > With attached patch now I get for libtool 2.2.4: > DESTDIR tests > 38: Simple DESTDIR install ok > 39: DESTDIR with in-package deplibs ok > Ping? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libtool/2008-05/msg00023.html Seems like an ob

Re: executable wrapper on mingw mangles arguments

2008-11-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Bruno Haible wrote: > This is a severe regression in libtool 2.x w.r.t. 1.5.26. On mingw, several > of the gettext tests fail because the executable wrapper created by the > libtool script does two bad things: > 1) It converts argv[0] from a filename with backslashes to a filename with >slashes

[PATCH] [cygwin|mingw] fix dlpreopen with --disable-static

2008-11-08 Thread Charles Wilson
* libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh (func_enable_tag): allow --verbose to set opt_verbose (func_win32_dllname_for_implib): New function. (func_mode_link) [cygwin|mingw]: Use linklib (that is, import lib) as dlpreopen file, rather than DLL. (func_generate_dlsyms) [cygwin|mingw]: Use func_win32_dllname_for_