RE: Automake,cygwin: 'make clean' with libtool wrappers...

[Robert Collins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 6:42 PM

>  Charles> Is this an autoconf bug AND a libtool bug -- autoconf
>  Charles> doesn't test for C++ "default output" variable, and
>  Charles> libtool.m4 should use that variable (rm -f
>  Charles> ${cxx_default_output))?
> 
> In my opinion this is a double Libtool bug:
> 
>   1. it doesn't delete a.exe in addition to a.out
>   2. it run some C++ test although we don't use C++.
> 
> The last time I checked Libtool CVS, it would systematically run
> tests for all languages it knows (C++, Java...) even when not
> used.  So I assumed that CVS HEAD was not ready for public use.

Probably that is the case. Chuck and I have worked long and hard to get
the libtool auto-import capability for cygwin into use, so until libtool
releases another version, HEAD is the best we have :}.

Rob