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Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 16:37:57 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
CC: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g AT lrde DOT epita DOT fr>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com,
   libtool-patches AT gnu DOT org, automake-patches AT gnu DOT org,
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Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Re: Solving the "relink exe's" libtool problem
References: <3E19C657 DOT 1040904 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> <2003-01-09-17-11-09+16471+duret_g AT lrde DOT epita DOT fr> <3E1DE146 DOT 8030901 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Charles Wilson wrote:
> 
> Hmmm...now there's a thought.  Perhaps, perhaps...
> 
> Said "stub" executable would have to do ALL of the things the script 
> does, and then pass that environment to its exec'ed target in .libs/ -- 
> does native windows provide an exec() command?  Environment inheritance? 
>  You'd probably need different source code for the stub, depending on 
> the platform... if buildhost == posixy, then exec() is our friend; 
> otherwise, nasty native Windows code...
> 

Yes MSVCRT.DLL contains both exec and spawn sets of functions.  Yes the 
parent environment is inherited by the child.  So, the stub should be 
able to work for either environment.

> Unfortunately, I can't work on that right now; my available time just 
> went to zero. :-(
> 

Sorry to hear that. :(

Earnie.


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