Re: Libtool: Microsoft dumpbin as name lister

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Peter,

* Peter Ekberg wrote on Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:23:08PM CEST:
> Ping, almost a month, I don't think I got a clear yes/no on this
> One before the discussion wandered off. Only the suggestion to
> detect Microsoft link seperately, but that's a much bigger change
> and I'd like to do that later<tm>.

Fair enough.

> * Peter Ekberg wrote on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 07:29 CEST:
> > 
> > This info made me look at the dumpbin-as-name-lister patch again
> > and I found an issue with it...
*snip*
> > Anyway, the problem with the new checking msg is that the
> > output from configure is a bit strange if nm is not found,
> > but dumpbin is:
> > 
> > checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... no
> > checking for dumpbin... dumpbin -symbols
> > checking the name lister (dumpbin -symbols) interface... MS dumpbin
> > 
> > However, the old message is strange when dumpbin is specified
> > by the user with NM="dumpbin -symbols":
> > 
> > checking for BSD-compatible nm... dumpbin -symbols
> > checking the name lister (dumpbin -symbols) interface... MS dumpbin 
> > 
> > I don't know which is best... Anyway, ignoring the somewhat strange
> > output for a bit, is this ok for HEAD?

Yes, please install.

Thanks, and sorry for the delay,
Ralf

> > 2005-08-23  Peter Ekberg  <address@hidden>
> > 
> >     * libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 (LT_PATH_NM): Fix autodetection of
> >     dumpbin and also check for "link -dump -symbols" as a synonym
> >     for "dumpbin -symbols".