Re: Make depmode=cpp work with Microsoft Visual C++ on MSYS.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Peter Rosin wrote on Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 09:51:14PM CET:
> Den 2009-03-04 00:07 skrev Ralf Wildenhues:
>> Not a really nice fix, but I've come up with this below.  Can you try
>> it (at least the tests/dep* tests from automake, please)?
>
> depcomp.test is ok,
> depcomp2.test and depcomp3.test are not applicable (forces gcc)
> depcomp4.test fails with missing makedepend.

FAIL or SKIP?  It should be skipped in that case.

> depcomp5.test forces icc
> depcomp6.test works fine (choke me triggers and the exit status is 0)

Good.

> depcomp7.test fails with no libtool.
>
>> The thing bothering me most is that it won't fix things for other
>> compilers not grokking `-c -o'.  OTOH I think it is fairly safe.
>
> I also tested this by applying the same set of changes to an already
> generated libtool configure script (from the pr-msvc-support branch).

Cool.

> however, I had to fix a tiny bug, see below.

>> +      am__minus_obj
>
> I'm missing an equal sign in the above line.
>
> I.e. works with:
> +      am__minus_obj=

Yep.  Thanks for testing, I've pushed the patch with that fix.

Cheers,
Ralf