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Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:53:16 -0500
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Subject: Re: How to install-libLTLIBRARIES dll to bin?
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On 28/07/2009 05:56, Dave Korn wrote:
>    Yeh, me too.  I have a horrible hack in the distro gcc that ascends
> directories until it finds ...../lib/ and replaces that with ..../bin/

I'm not sure how you did it, so I just made the attached patch to do 
just that.  It's a bit of a hack but I don't think it's so horrible. 
Chuck, what do you think?

>    Only libtool knows about the DLL.  Only the Makefile knows about the setting
> of $bindir from configure.  Currently however the Makefile only passes the
> path to the output in $libdir.  Therefore ISTM that the only correct solution
> is to add a --bindir= option to libtool and modify automake or libtoolise to
> ensure it gets passed by the makefiles when they invoke libtool.

It might be more correct, but implementing this would be *VERY* messy. 
Trust me.  The first solution would be much, much easier.


Yaakov

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2009-08-09  Yaakov Selkowitz  <yselkowitz AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>

	* libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh (func_mode_link) [cygwin*]:
	If a shared library is installed into a subdirectory of $prefix/lib,
	install the DLL into $prefix/bin so that it will be in $PATH.

--- origsrc/libtool-2.2.7a/libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh	2009-08-08 23:47:33.051542300 -0500
+++ src/libtool-2.2.7a/libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh	2009-08-09 01:39:35.688299700 -0500
@@ -7741,7 +7741,21 @@ EOF
 	  # place dlname in correct position for cygwin
 	  tdlname=$dlname
 	  case $host,$output,$installed,$module,$dlname in
-	    *cygwin*,*lai,yes,no,*.dll | *mingw*,*lai,yes,no,*.dll | *cegcc*,*lai,yes,no,*.dll) tdlname=../bin/$dlname ;;
+	    *cygwin*,*lai,yes,no,*.dll)
+          tdlname=../$dlname
+          case "$install_libdir" in
+            */lib/*)
+              tlibdir="$install_libdir"
+              while :; do
+                func_dirname_and_basename "$tlibdir"
+                test "$func_basename_result" = "lib" && break
+                tlibdir="$func_dirname_result"
+                tdlname=../$tdlname
+              done
+            ;;
+          esac
+        ;;
+	    *mingw*,*lai,yes,no,*.dll | *cegcc*,*lai,yes,no,*.dll) tdlname=../bin/$dlname ;;
 	  esac
 	  $ECHO > $output "\
 # $outputname - a libtool library file


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