Re: Absolute paths generated by libtool.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Benoit Sigoure wrote on Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 07:55:38AM CET:
> Quoting Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden>:
> >* Benoit Sigoure wrote on Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 07:27:13AM CET:
> >
> >>If simply passing -mno-cygwin to gcc is exactly like using mingw gcc,
> >
> >No, e.g., for path handling reasons already stated, this is already
> >wrong.
> 
> Don't be picky :P

Well, it will hit you time and again if you don't listen.
Usually shortly before a deadline.

> >Also note that techincally you're cross-compiling, so you need
> >--host, and will encounter some more fun.
> 
> Yeah well, it's not like if I was to compile Windows binaries on Linux, I 
> can still run what I compile etc (important for make check).

Passing --host is necessary in general.

> Hmm I think this means "no, libtool doesn't work with vc++" :)

No, it meant: do what I wrote and then libtool will work reasonably well
with MSVC.

> Does any of you people know about cccl [http://cccl.sourceforge.net/]? 

Yes.  It's helpful already for some things Autoconf assumes.

Cheers,
Ralf