Re: func_convert_file_cygwin_to_w32 woes

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Peter,

* Peter Rosin wrote on Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 09:35:08PM CET:
> Below is a patch that changes all old_archive_cmds assignments.

That patch looks actually fairly safe to me; still, at least some
testing on at least one relevant system would be nice.  Feel free
to push when you feel comfortable with it.

I think a NEWS item for this might be in order; codesearch didn't reveal
any packages using $old_archive_cmds in their configure scripts but I
didn't bother to check more than half a dozen result pages or so, and if
there are any, they might break because of not having set $tool_oldlib.
Something like this maybe?

  Static library creation copes better with output file names that
  require w32 path translation; the default value for old_archive_cmds
  has been changed accordingly.

Hmm, I realize that due to the earlier ranlib change this was true
before already.

Thanks,
Ralf

> From: Peter Rosin <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 21:22:10 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] Convert to toolchain format when invoking the archiver.