bug#13414: [Werner Koch] Re: [pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#814951: libassuan: add libassuan-mingw-w64-dev for cross-building to Windows targets

[Peter Rosin]

On 2016-02-22 12:44, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> On Saturday 20 of February 2016 14:29:47 Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> Over on https://bugs.debian.org/814951, Werner Koch and i are discussing
>> how https://debbugs.gnu.org/13414 is still a problem with libtool.  In
>> particular, GNU libtool can't seem to detect that a .def file is valid
>> unless EXPORT is the literal first line in the file (it chokes when
>> blank lines or comments precede EXPORT).
>>
>> Werner supplied the patch below to fix libtool.  The upstream bug
>> appears to have a rather different set of patches.  Either way, the
>> problem should be cleaned up in libtool, as it's causing a series of
>> workarounds for cross-building things on debian for the Windows
>> platform.
>>
>> Is there some reason for the delay upstream besides lack of time to work
>> on it?  Should debian go ahead and apply one of the proposed patches
>> downstream in the meantime?
> 
> From the patch itself:
> 
>     There is no need to send this upstream.  Upstream's git master has a
>     lot of changes including a similar fix for this problems.  There are
>     no signs that a libtool 2.4.3 will be released to fix this problem and
>     thus we need to stick to our copy of 2.4.2 along with this patch.
> 
> It is quite some time libtool 2.4.3 was released, the latest release is 2.4.6
> now.  Can you check that update helps?

Hi!

The libtool patch from https://debbugs.gnu.org/13414 is better than the
debian patch from https://bugs.debian.org/814951 in every aspect that I
can see and should indeed help.

For reference, the libtool patch was committed here
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git/commit/?id=a5a4944fbb2bbd

(three years old, released one year ago in 2.4.3)

Cheers,
Peter