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From: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf DOT Habacker AT freenet DOT de>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: RE: Autotools broken?
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 00:40:41 +0100
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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...

This sounds good, although this problem is one of the least problems :-)
Do you have compiled your project with this patched libtool succesfully ? 
Without any other problems ? 

Ralf 

> 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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> 
> 
> 

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