Confusing libtool behaviour on cygwin

[Maarten Boekhold]

Hi all,

I'm a little confused about how libtool (or maybe it's automake) behaves 
when used as 'libtool --mode=install' for a shared library *under cygwin*.

I am in the process of porting XFCE (http://www.xfce.org) to cygwin/X. 
XFCE has various subpackages, and a number of them use a plugin 
mechanism, where plugins are loaded with g_module_open() and friends.

The Makefile.am's for these plugins are all more or less the same. Yet, 
some plugins get installed as '$(libdir)/bin/cygXXXXX.dll', some as 
'$(libdir)/modules/cygXXXXX.dll', and others as 
'$(libdir)/modules/libXXXX.dll'. And I just can't figure out what's 
causing this.

Does anybody know about this, have some pointer on how to get these 
shared libraries all installed in the same place (preferrably as 
$(libdir)/modules/libXXXX.dll)? Any pointer on how to investigate this?

Maarten