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From: "Stephano Mariani" <sk DOT mail AT btinternet DOT com>
To: "'Ralf Habacker'" <Ralf DOT Habacker AT freenet DOT de>,
   "'Cygwin'" <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: RE: Autotools broken?
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 22:32:16 -0000
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Possible bug:
The patched libtool.m4 that you pointed me to has a slight bug. It
leaves an a.exe in the project's directory when configure is run. I'm
no
shell script programmer, but I will try figure this out, if someone
has
not already done so...

Stephano Mariani

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralf Habacker [mailto:Ralf DOT Habacker AT freenet DOT de]
> Sent: 20 January 2002 15:57
> To: Cygwin
> Cc: Stephano Mariani
> Subject: RE: Autotools broken?
>
> Look in the thread "libtool-devel and kde2 - problem with
> AC_PROG_CXX" -
> there is a patched libtool.m4 which works for me.
>
> Regards
>
> Ralf Habacker
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On
> Behalf
> > Of Stephano Mariani
> > Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 2:11 PM
> > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > Subject: Autotools broken?
> > Importance: High
> >
> >
> > It appears in the latest cygwin (updated just hours ago) that the
> > libtool is broken...
> >
> > I'm  using the autotools on a very big build tree, that has over
> 600 c
> > source files to be built, and some 50 assembler sources. When
> using
> > autoconf, automake and libtool, the configure script dies
> complaining
> > that it cannot find 'ltconfig.sh'. I am using the devel (with
> > AC_PREREQ(2.52)) version of the tools, and have searched in
> > /usr/autotool/{devel,stable}/share/libtool and there appears to be
> no
> > sign of ltconfig.sh.
> >
> > checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> > checking for dlfcn.h... yes
> > checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
> > checking for strip... strip
> > checking for gcc option to produce PIC... none
> > checking whether the linker (/usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld.exe)
> supports
> > shared libraries... yes
> > checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... (cached) ok
> > checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
> > checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 12289
> > checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... yes
> > checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
> > checking for objdir... .libs
> > checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
> > checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
> > checking dynamic linker characteristics... Win32 ld.exe
> > checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... yes
> > creating libtool
> > checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
> > checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
> > ./ltconfig: Can't open ./ltconfig: No such file or directory
> > configure: error: libtool tag configuration failed
> > make: *** [config.status] Error 1
> >
> > The entire build tree works perfectly when on linux, and on
> solaris.
> > Is
> > this a cygwin issue? I'm relatively new to windows and cygwin.
> >
> > How do I go about solving this?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Stephano Mariani
> >
> >
> >
> >
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