Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] sysroot followup patches

[Charles Wilson]

On 8/22/2010 11:26 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Paolo, Charles,
> 
> I think these are the leftover items, right?
> 
> * Paolo Bonzini wrote on Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 03:23:02AM CEST:
>> 4) patch for old libtool, to not barf on '='
>> 6) support in libltdl for '=' in .la files
> 7) doc updates.

Yes, that is the entire remaining list IIRC.

> I think the sysroot branch is in pretty good shape and all remaining
> items can be argued to not be regressions.  Thus, it might be a good
> idea to merge the branch to master now so that we can easily test it all
> together.  So, barring disagreement from any of the other maintainers
> within the next 72 hours, let's merge the current sysroot branch.

I agree.

> Of course, we should still aim to complete as much as possible before
> the release.

Of course (especially docs).

>> I would like some help for 6 mostly due to lack of time on my part.
>> The main design point here is how to pass the sysroot to libltdl.
> 
> For me, that will definitely have to wait 'till next weekend, sorry.

Ack.

Given the tentative plan to roll out a libtool-2.2.next by "the end of
this month" (august) with "some msvc support" -- and Peter's statement
that some of his remaining msvc patches require my cross-path support
patch, I'm going to roll that out (against master, not sysroot) later
today, in preference to working on the libltdl patches.

I've tested the cross-path patch (in the past) in the following
configurations:

cygwin (native)
mingw (native; e.g. msys in its normal "pretend I
       am mingw32" personality)
linux (native)
linux->mingw cross (*)

I plan to repeat ALL of those tests, plus

cygwin->mingw cross
linux->cygwin cross (*) (**)
msys->msys (native; e.g. msys in its "okay, I'm actually
            a cygwin-like unix environment" personality)

(*) as with all cross configurations, the -exec tests are skipped as
part of the "official" test run. However, I'll spot check by manually
checking the contents of the c wrapper source code, and manually running
the executable from the builddir.

(**) I need to actually compile and install these tools on my linux box;
so far there are no public "linux->cygwin" cross tool chains available
"out there" for immediate use.


Anyway, this test series will take DAYS to complete...so I'd appreciate
it if the review (or, the reviewER's refresh/reread of the OLD reviews,
whose links I will post) could commence concurrent with my generation of
the test results.  I don't expect any surprise in those test results, tho...

--
Chuck