Re: Patch libtool for m4 cvs in mingw/msys

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Peter, heromyth,

Sorry for the late response.

* Peter Ekberg wrote on Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 09:31:27PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > heromyth wrote:
> > > works. So there is no need to do this patch, just delete 
> > > /etc/config.site.
> > 
> > Who created /etc/config.site (resp. which software package 
> > contains the one you had installed) and what are its contents?
> 
> I think the one on my system -- currently renamed to
> /etc/config.shite :-)

  configure CONFIG_SITE=
should do as well.

> -- was installed by the MinGW
> installation (i.e. gcc et al.) for MSYS.

Hmm.  Would an MSYS update be able to overwrite/replace/remove it?
(Yes, I know next to nothing about MSYS, sorry.)

> Contents:
*snip*
> lt_cv_sys_global_symbol_pipe=${lt_cv_sys_global_symbol_pipe=}
> lt_cv_sys_path_separator=${lt_cv_sys_path_separator=:}

Hmm.  Both of these are problematic, at least.  Even without using MSVC.

> I was just about to ask nicely on the MinGW list to have it
> zapped since it interferes with my MSYS+MSVC patch, and I
> can't for the world figure out what good it does...

That might be a good idea, yes.

Thanks,
Ralf