Re: Archiver handling

[Peter Rosin]

Den 2009-01-20 23:35 skrev Peter Rosin:
> Den 2009-01-13 10:48 skrev Peter Rosin:
> > Den 2009-01-13 10:39 skrev Peter Rosin:
> > > libtool-ar.patch
> > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2008-09/msg00003.html
> >
> > No ChangeLog entry written yet.
> >
> > Sorry 'bout that...
>
> Here's an incremental update that makes the "Link option thorough
> search test" proceed a bit further for MSYS/MSVC.
>
> Basically it makes libtool itself use the new --mode=ar to create
> archives if the archiver is odd (i.e. MS lib.exe). --mode=ar is
> then extended to translate the path of the archive to host native
> format which makes it possible to create archives with absolute
> pathnames.
>
> (Fails w/o this patch since MSYS doesn't convert pathnames in
> arguments if they are prefixed the wrong way. In this case lib.exe
> is called with "lib -out:/absolute/archive/name.lib" as MSYS does
> not recognize that it has to convert /absolute/archive/name.lib to
> a win32 path for lib.exe to understand it).

Blast, forgot the patch...

Cheers,
Peter

diff --git a/libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh b/libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh
index 36dd3fb..fef7a0c 100644
--- a/libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh
+++ b/libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh
@@ -8256,9 +8258,10 @@ func_mode_ar ()
     for arg
     do
       if test -z "$archive"; then
-        archive=$arg
+       func_to_host_path "$arg"
+       archive=$func_to_host_path_result
       else
-        files="$files $arg"
+       files="$files $arg"
       fi
     done
 
diff --git a/libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 b/libltdl/m4/libtool.m4
index e886d3d..c8a46eb 100644
--- a/libltdl/m4/libtool.m4
+++ b/libltdl/m4/libtool.m4
@@ -1320,6 +1320,11 @@ lib)
   ;;
 esac
 
+_LT_DECL([], [AR_FLAGS], [1], [Flags to create an archive])
+_LT_DECL([], [AR_TFLAGS], [1], [Flags to list archive content])
+_LT_DECL([], [AR_XFLAGS], [1], [Flags to extract an archive])
+_LT_DECL([], [AR_SEP], [1], [Separator between AR flags and AR files])
+
 if test -n "$AR_SEP" &&
    test "X$AR_TFLAGS" = Xt &&
    test "X$AR_XFLAGS" = Xx &&
@@ -1327,20 +1332,23 @@ if test -n "$AR_SEP" &&
 then
   LT_AR='$(AR)'
   LT_ARFLAGS='$(AR_FLAGS)'
+  lt_ar=\$AR
+  lt_arflags=\$AR_FLAGS
 else
-  LT_AR='$(SHELL) $(abs_top_builddir)/libtool --quiet --mode=ar'
+  LT_AR='$(SHELL) $(top_builddir)/libtool --quiet --mode=ar'
   LT_ARFLAGS=cru
+  lt_ar="\"\$SHELL \[$]0 --quiet --mode=ar\""
+  lt_arflags=cru
 fi
 
+_LT_DECL([LT_AR], [lt_ar], [0], [The portable archiver])
+_LT_DECL([LT_ARFLAGS], [lt_arflags], [0],
+  [Flags to portably create an archive])
 _LT_DECL([], [ar_extract_one_by_one], [1],
   [Extract archive members one by one])
 _LT_DECL([], [archiver_list_spec], [1],
   [How to feed a file listing to the archiver])
 
-_LT_DECL([], [AR_FLAGS], [1], [Flags to create an archive])
-_LT_DECL([], [AR_TFLAGS], [1], [Flags to list archive content])
-_LT_DECL([], [AR_XFLAGS], [1], [Flags to extract an archive])
-_LT_DECL([], [AR_SEP], [1], [Separator between AR flags and AR files])
 AC_SUBST([LT_AR])
 AC_SUBST([LT_ARFLAGS])
 AC_SUBST([AR])
@@ -1363,7 +1371,7 @@ _LT_DECL([], [RANLIB], [1],
     [Commands used to install an old-style archive])
 
 # Determine commands to create old-style static archives.
-old_archive_cmds='$AR $AR_FLAGS$AR_SEP$oldlib$oldobjs'
+old_archive_cmds='$LT_AR $LT_ARFLAGS $oldlib$oldobjs'
 old_postinstall_cmds='chmod 644 $oldlib'
 old_postuninstall_cmds=