Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: mblock make failure under Cygwin

[Eric Blossom]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 05:47:32PM -0400, Don Ward wrote:
> Eric Blossom wrote:
>
>>>> .libs/qa_inband_usrp_server.o: In function
>>>> `_ZN5boost6detail17sp_counted_impl_pI12qa_alloc_topE11get_deleterERKSt9type_info':
>>>> /usr/include/boost-1_33_1/boost/detail/sp_counted_impl.hpp:(.text+0x9b):
>>>> undefined reference to `mb_mblock::~mb_mblock()'
>>>
>>> It looks like you are missing a patch (attachment:"makefiles6975.patch,
>>> listed on the Cywin wiki page) needed to include the mblock library in 
>>> the
>>> link of qa_inband_usrp_server.
>>>
>>> -- Don W.
>>
>>
>> Thanks Don.
>>
>>
>> FYI, we haven't applied this patch to the trunk because the real
>> problem is with libtool under cygwin.  The patch replicates
>> information (always a bad idea) that libtool already knows on all
>> other systems.
>
> Good news:  libtool 2.2.2 is now available on Cygwin and seems to handle 
> the interlibrary dependencies.
>
> Bad news:  (a) using the new libtool requires running bootstrap (to get new 
> ltmain.sh, libtool.m4, ...?), so it still requires a patch (to add 
> bootstrap) to work with the current release; and (b) autoconf (and/or 
> libtoolize?) produce a number of warnings, such as "LT_OUTPUT was called 
> before LT_LANG".  (I think there are some compatibility issues, but I 
> haven't found any simple documentation on them yet.)
>
> Unknowns:  I don't know if libtool 2.x runs on MinGW, and I haven't tried 
> it on Debian (to see if it gets the same warning messages).
>
> -- Don W.


That's great news.  FWIW, the next release will have bootstrap
included in the tarballs.

Eric