Re: Absolute paths generated by libtool.

[Benoit Sigoure]

Quoting Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden>:

> * Benoit Sigoure wrote on Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 07:27:13AM CET:
> > Quoting Eric Blake <address@hidden>:
> > >According to Benoit Sigoure on 11/14/2006 9:35 AM:
> > >
> > >Have you tried writing the makefile with forward slashes?  Windows tends
> > >to do all right with them, in spite of the fact that they are not the
> > >documented directory separator.
> >
> > Yes, I know this works. Unfortunately, some bits of the Makefiles come from
> > Qmake which is definitively targetting a mingw env.
>
> So file a bug report with Qmake, and/or work around it in your M4
> macros.

No because Qmake is right to use such a path in a mingw environment.
Working around it in my M4 macros would solve this specific problem but it
wouldnt be generic. This buildfarm is going to compile lots of different
projects and I don't want to tweak each of them separately, that's why I'm
trying to find generic workarounds (such as my perl scripts which rewrites
properly shell commands).

> > If simply passing -mno-cygwin to gcc is exactly like using mingw gcc,
>
> No, e.g., for path handling reasons already stated, this is already
> wrong.

Don't be picky :P

> Also note that techincally you're cross-compiling, so you need
> --host, and will encounter some more fun.

Yeah well, it's not like if I was to compile Windows binaries on Linux, I can
still run what I compile etc (important for make check).

> > By the way (that's slightly out of topic) my next target is to get it to
> > work with VC++ (sigh!). Will automake/autoconf and especially libtool
> > support vc++?
>
> Forget about spaces in paths.  Grab CVS Libtool, search for the last
> version of Peter Ekberg's Libtool patches for MSVC on this (or the
> libtool-patches) list.  Alternatively, there's wgcc with its set of
> Libtool patches, also to be found in this list's archive.  Neither patch
> is currently part of Libtool as both cause regressions for unrelated
> systems.

Hmm I think this means "no, libtool doesn't work with vc++" :)
However, I'll look at the different patches you mentionned and will try them.
Thanks for the references.

Does any of you people know about cccl [http://cccl.sourceforge.net/]? 
It seems
like an alternative to do what I want. I haven't tried it out though.

> Hope that helps.

Yes, thank you.

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