Re: [PATCH] Adjust naming of MSVC import libraries.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Peter,

* Peter Rosin wrote on Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 11:25:00AM CEST:
> (BTW, what's up with the strange date generated by git in the next line?)
> 
> From baa6de02d18f99e65777dd8092e6a7fc1d734358 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

That's a git artefact, just like the sha1 isn't a real 'From' string.

> From: Peter Rosin <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 08:54:50 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] Adjust naming of MSVC import libraries.
> 
> * libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 (_LT_SYS_DYNAMIC_LINKER) [mingw, cygwin]
> [pw32, cegcc] <cl*, library_names_spec>: Adjust naming of the
> import library from foo-<major-version>.lib to foo.dll.lib, to
> avoid clashes with the static library for unversioned libraries.
> (_LT_LINKER_SHLIBS, _LT_LANG_CXX_CONFIG) [mingw, cygwin, pw32]
> [cegcc] <cl*, archive_expsym_cmds>: Explicitely name the import
> library to match the above.

Thanks for pushing this.  I think it deserves to be mentioned in NEWS,
even if MSVC wasn't supported (well) before.

Cheers,
Ralf