X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4802D333.2050109@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:44:51 -0500 From: "Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Attn: cygport maintainer [was: Re: Libtool 2.2.2] References: <47F6A816.2010208@alice.it> <47F73BA6.6000001@alice.it> <47F7E1D1.804DF919@dessent.net> <47F94F88.6050705@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <47F9A114.3060608@users.sourceforge.net> <47F9B6B6.4090908@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <47FA254B.205@users.sourceforge.net> <47FB0E98.3060402@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <47FB25D3.6040703@users.sourceforge.net> <47FB83D4.5080600@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <47FBF68C.6070709@users.sourceforge.net> <47FC0DA6.1080208@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4801E1E9.9020703@users.sourceforge.net> <4802CDD1.3070102@cwilson.fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <4802CDD1.3070102@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Charles Wilson wrote: | I believe this was an attempt at optimization: avoid testing for | specific tools need only on one platform, unless libtool has been told | that it is ON that platform. Oddly, you'd think that libtool would | figure that out from $build/$host/$target, and not [win32-dll]. More than that, is AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL (now [win32-dll]) actually necessary anymore? Cygwin doesn't need it, but I don't know about MinGW. | Which is also odd. I wonder why linux uses objdump...maybe this is a | dead code path? I'm not sure; AFAICS such a test didn't exist for linux in libtool 1.5. | [*] Having heard no objections, and a few votes in favor, I'm leaning | towards replacing both libtool1.5 and libtool2.2 with a single | "libtool" package, with 1.5-derived versions remaining "curr:" for the | near-term. With my patch to libtool and some tweaking of cygport, libtool 2.2 seems to be working pretty well. I will need to know your final decision before committing the cygport patches, and I'll try to push an update as soon as possible thereafter. Yaakov -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIAtMzpiWmPGlmQSMRCE3eAJ9mQXitBbfqWUnLRFL7HmalQaG2fgCeLd/A yA/G/Orc2yZcwB7GVikWUI4= =N1Er -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/