Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3E7FE8A1.6080800@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 00:26:57 -0500 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: libtool 20030216: problem recognizing import libraries References: <3E685D89.D4F7B8E4@ecn.nl> <3E68E8BA.4030008@ece.gatech.edu> <3E68F447.EFFE2992@freeler.nl> <3E68FAFC.2C4BA1AF@freeler.nl> <813-Fri07Mar2003201639+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> <3E6900A2.4030008@ece.gatech.edu> <3E6C4E11.8010307@ece.gatech.edu> In-Reply-To: <3E6C4E11.8010307@ece.gatech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Charles Wilson wrote: > Okay, the patch I posted to libtool-patches works on my system (of > course, the UNpatched libtool works on my system) -- but the patch ought > to fix this problem. It hunts specifically for head.exe and uses that, > if found, falling back to 'head' only if 'head.exe' is not found in the > path. After a few iterations, somebody hit me on the head with a clue-by-4; a patch has been accepted into libtool CVS that fixes this problem. The patch? Don't use head. Instead, call sed -e '10q'. It's just as fast, and a far less intrusive change. --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/