Hi Ladis,
I can see three sets of changes in this commit:
1. Removal of GNOKIIDLL_EXPORTS and GNOKIIDLL_IMPORTS replacing with COMPILING_LIBGNOKII. This part is clear. However, can you elaborate on how "GNOKII_API is (mis)used by smsd plugins"?
2. automake related change between AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL and LT_INIT([win32-dll]) - I've seen this done also by autoupdate, so no questions here
3. Juggling with -DLOCALEDIR and DEFS in Makefile. Can you explain what is going on here?