RE: MSYS+MSVC for libtool branch-2-0, take 7

[Peter Ekberg]

I wrote:
> Oh, what the hell, I've attached an updated patch...
> I can't bootstrap after all the recent moves (should I send
> a bugreport?), so it's against cvs from a couple of days ago
> and not as well tested as I would like. E.g. your fix in
> inherited_flags.at is untested.

Tested now, works fine! Thanks!

> Test 14 still fails, the reason could be that the output
> from the "prog" program is warped from:
> 
> -----8<-----
> a sample prog\r\n
> f(3) = 6\r\n
> cf(3) = 9\r\n
> -----8<-----
> 
> into:
>  
> -----8<-----
> a sample prog\r\n
> f(3) = 6\r\n
> cf(3) = 9\r\n
> \n
> -----8<-----
> 
> as seen in at-stdout.
> 
> I don't know if it's the extra newline (without carrige return!!!)
> that's the problem or if it's the \r\n line endings in general...
> 
> Anyway, the output from autotest is this:
> -----8<-----
> ../../tests/template.at:90: if ./prog; then :;
>            elif test "X$host" != "X$build" && \
>                 { test -x "./prog" || test -x "./prog"$EXEEXT; }
>            then (exit 77); fi
> stderr:
> --- -   Tue Aug 23 11:38:01 2005
> +++
> /c/cygwin/home/peda/libtool/head-msvc/libtool/msvc2/tests/test
> suite.dir/
> at-stdout   Tue Aug 23 11:38:01 2005
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -a sample prog
> -f(3) = 6
> -cf(3) = 9
> +a sample prog
> +f(3) = 6
> +cf(3) = 9
> -----8<-----
> 
> My guess is the line ending mixup is the cause, since both
> files have four "lines". But that's just a guess...

Test 14 works now, I'm guessing my automake upgrade
(1.9.5 -> cvs) has something to do with it. Or autoconf...

> Cheers,
> Peter

Cheers again,
Peter