Re: [Mingw-users] libtool, dlls and -lm

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Keith,

* Keith MARSHALL wrote on Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 11:17:08AM CET:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=13069136 which
> 
> If I interpret that correctly, you are specifically asking for `join'
> and `paste', from GNU coreutils; you would also like `fold' and `split',
> but we provide then already, so I guess you are just suggesting that
> they be mandated by GCS.

Correct on all accounts.

> Sure, we could consider distributing these, but don't hold your breath
> waiting.  I tried to build a Win32 native GNU coreutils with MinGW quite
> recently, and the `make' failed miserably.  Unless some kind soul provides
> a mingwPORT, and/or feeds the necessary patches back into the coreutils
> project, these are unlikely to be available any time soon.  For now,
> you could try the GnuWin32 port -- I don't know how effective that
> might be.

I don't think that would help for a GCS decision to mandate those tools:
they should be readily available everywhere, otherwise they can't be
considered necessary.  Kind of a chicken-and-egg wrt. MSYS.  :-)
(By the way, I believe there are other systems we need to check for
those tools, before actually proposing the GCS change.)

But your statement still helps: I may just want to venture into porting
those tools to MSYS when I have some time (sometime after 2.0 is done),
unless beaten to, of course -- the prospect of maybe having them
distributed when working is better than nothing.  :-)

> P.S. Please forward this to `libtool-patches' at your discretion;

Done.

> my previous post was bounced, awaiting moderator approval,

I don't think it bounced, it merely needed first-time approval.  I did
that (and your post has shown up in the archives now); any further posts
of yours should go through without approval.

> and I have no desire to subscribe personally to that list.

Fully understood.  Sorry for the inconvenience -- spam has made this
necessary.  (For archive completeness only: it is also possible to
subscribe and disable delivery, to forgo first-post moderation.)

Cheers,
Ralf