RE: Libtool head: Path translation issue on MinGW

[Peter Ekberg]

Hi!

* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 14:05 CEST:
> Hi Peter, Bob,
> 
> * Peter Ekberg wrote on Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 10:59:23AM CEST:
> > * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 01:52 CEST

*snip*

> > > Note that the Cygwin GCC is a Cygwin application so using 
> the Cygwin 
> > > GCC in "MinGW" mode is not entirely the same.
> > 
> > That much was clear to me...
> 
> Side question: have you tested 'gcc -mno-cygwin' on cygwin much?
> I've tried it once, but I believe I need other settings as well to
> make it work smoothly.  --host?  I'm planning on eventually testing
> this one thoroughly, too, though.  I know people use it.

Not much, no. Sorry...

> > Anyway, here's a patch to fix this MinGW problem. Makes stresstest
> > pass on MinGW if head-filter-data-symbols-3.patch is applied
> > and if dumpbin is used as name lister (but the two patches are
> > independent and fix separate bugs).
> 
> Looks good, please apply this one, with the really minor spelling nit
> below.  Could you, by the way, backport this into branch-1-5?

Ok, applied to head and backported to 1.5, but commit in 1.5 didn't
find sendmail so I think no notification was mailed out to
libtool-commit.

> Hey, we didn't invent stresstest just to please itself, these are
> all bugs in libtool proper, just more or less rarely exposed.  Our
> docs do not state that the output file name must not be an absolute
> path, and as such, it should work to use an absolute path.  Agreed,
> this one is not very likely to be hit by users.

I know, it's just that there's the following little passage in
HACKING :-)

* If a change fixes a test, mention the test in the ChangeLog entry.

Cheers,
Peter