Re: [Mingw-msys] Re: MinGW libtool DLL failure

[Guido Draheim]

> Would bindir be an environment variable if libtool is being executed 
> from make?  If not, setting a variable in the libtool.m4 that configure 
> sets works.  I prefer that over a switch, with a default value for the 
> variable of ../bin.  If bindir is passed to libtool through the 
> environment then use ../bin if bindir isn't present.

yes.

Just reiterating the link to the macro that I add regularly to configure.ac
http://ac-archive.sourceforge.net/guidod/ac_set_default_paths_system.html

The main trick is to modify only the default-path (!!) of the libdirpath
and therefore let the user be free to override it on the commandline. When
a user has overridden the bindirpath then "../bin" might simply be the wrong
choice as it would not end up near the binary nor in the $PATH.

libdir=`echo $libdir |sed -e 's:^..exec_prefix./lib$:${bindir}:'`

perhaps add a similar thing to the libtool m4 macro, no?