Re: FYI: libtool--devo--1.0--patch-204

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > As for myself, I have been negligent with testing/fixing libtool under
> > MinGW.  Last I looked, it has become completely broken under MinGW and
> > can no longer even build libltdl.  I will try to find time.
>
> Wow, that's bad!  I gather that cygwin is in pretty good shape at the moment
> too (when I revert Chucks last changeset ;-)

It is good that Cygwin is working since MinGW should work almost 
identically to Cygwin.  Fixing MinGW should be a matter of figuring 
out why they differ.

I am curious to know if the executable wrapper problem which impacts 
Cygwin/MinGW still exists.  The situation is that if the user provided 
LDFLAGS (e.g. LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib) , these user-provided LDFLAGS 
are used to extend the executable search path (so DLLs are found). 
Unfortunately, the search path is inserted *prior* to the search for 
the package's own libraries so if the package has been installed 
before, the wrong DLLs are used!

Bob
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