X-Recipient:	archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
X-SWARE-Spam-Status:	No, hits=-3.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS
X-Spam-Check-By:	sourceware.org
Message-ID:	<4ACBE774.4070503@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
Date:	Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:57:24 -0400
From:	Charles Wilson <cygwin AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm>
User-Agent:	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666
MIME-Version:	1.0
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: libtool: rebuild required for gcc-4.3.4
References:	<4ACBE2E2 DOT 9020902 AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
In-Reply-To:	<4ACBE2E2.9020902@users.sourceforge.net>
Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id:	<cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> Now that gcc4 has been promoted to the default compiler on 1.7, libtool
> requires a rebuild so that sys_lib_search_path_spec in /usr/bin/libtool
> points to the correct directory (/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4 vs.
> 3.4.4).  This will be necessary each time gcc4 gets a version bump (but
> multiple releases of the same version don't matter).

Technically true -- but in practice, not so much. AFAIK, very few
packages use /usr/bin/libtool itself; instead they create their own
libtool when configured.  One exception is ncurses, I believe.

But yeah, I plan to update libtool soonish. There's talk of an official
2.2.8 release...

--
Chuck



--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

- Raw text -