Re: mdemo ltdl failure

[Charles Wilson]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Charles Wilson wrote:
> > [snip long description of ugly runtime test]
> > See
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2007-03/msg00030.html
> >
> > After discussion with Bob F, I've reimplemented this fix without the 
> > actual runtime test.  Instead, if $host_os is cygwin, and cygwin 
> > version is 1.5.24 or older, then force use of libltdl builtin argz.  
> > In all other cases (including cross), pre-existing detection rules apply.
>
> This new version is certainly more attractive than before.  Presumably 
> this special case can be safely removed after enough time has elapsed 
> for the majority of Cygwin installs to be updated.

Right, give or take a year. 8-P

> Is the:
>
>   libmlib_la_LDFLAGS = -no-undefined -export-symbols-regex ".*"
>
> statement portable?

(1) Yes

(2) and it shouldn't be in this patch anyway. Ralf already applied that 
bit to HEAD:
http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg02848.html

"My bigger worries with this patch were that it could regress on
some other, unrelated platform.  I've checked the systems I have access
to now, and all seem to do fine.  So I have applied the change as below."

This is what happens when you try some home-grown version of 
patch-quilt...long story.

--
Chuck