Re: MSYS+MSVC for libtool branch-2-0

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Peter,

* Peter Ekberg wrote on Sat, May 28, 2005 at 08:47:10PM CEST:
> 
> this snippet in ltmain.m4sh, for file_magic*), line approx 4750,
> 
>   if test -n "$a_deplib" ; then
>     libname=`eval "\\$ECHO \"$libname_spec\""`
>     for i in $lib_search_path $sys_lib_search_path $shlib_search_path;
> do
>       potential_libs=`ls $i/$libname[[.-]]* 2>/dev/null`
>       for potent_lib in $potential_libs; do
>         # Follow soft links.
>         if ls -lLd "$potent_lib" 2>/dev/null |
> 
> has problems because shell expansion (?) of $i/$libname[.-]*
> is not case insensitive.

Yep.

> If I e.g. supply -L/msvc/lib -lwsock32 and there's a file
> WSOCK32.LIB in that dir, the ls command will not find it.
> 
> Using -lWSOCK32 works, but that does not work for MinGW
> and Cygwin, since they provide libwsock32.a with the
> same functionality as WSOCK32.LIB in MSVC. So, to not
> make makefiles a mess, I'd really like the above to include
> /msvc/lib/WSOCK32.LIB in potential_libs.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to make that happen?

Write a shell function to encapsulate the globbing, then
do it the easiest way that is available (bash has nocaseglob,
else there is `tr', or even a compiled program to evaluate).  :-/
This part also sucks for white space in paths, but I think that
could be fixed as well..

Regards,
Ralf