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Charles Wilson wrote:
> Thanks for looking in to this; this failure has always bugged me because
> I know cygwin supports it, but I've never had the time to track it down.

It has bugged me for quite a while too, as libglade-based packages often
require this functionality.  I've used various hacks to work around
this, but this is a much simpler (and more correct) solution.

> I don't know of a better solution; I'm leery of turning on
> --export-all-symbols willy-nilly, because that auto-exports everything
> even if you've carefully declspec'ed only specific symbols.

If a package is using the -export-dynamic libtool flag, I doubt it would
be using declspec's.  But I could be wrong.

> Works for me.  Thanks for these patches.  Did you already send them
> upstream?

No, I have not.

> I'd planned to respin libtool relatively soon, to remove some of Peter
> Rosin's patches that I included in our version, but which he has now
> said are not really ready for widespread distribution.  I'll bump that
> higher on my priority queue.

Please do; 2.2.7a-10 is completely broken wrt automake < 1.9.


Yaakov
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