Re: Absolute paths generated by libtool.

[Benoit Sigoure]

Quoting Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden>:

> * Benoit Sigoure wrote on Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 07:55:38AM CET:
> > Quoting Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden>:
> > >* Benoit Sigoure wrote on Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 07:27:13AM CET:
> > >
> > >>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
>
> Well, it will hit you time and again if you don't listen.
> Usually shortly before a deadline.

Yes you're totally right but besides this difference, are there other
differences I need to be aware of?

> > >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).
>
> Passing --host is necessary in general.

Alright I'll pass --host=mingw32.

> > Hmm I think this means "no, libtool doesn't work with vc++" :)
>
> No, it meant: do what I wrote and then libtool will work reasonably well
> with MSVC.

OK.

> > Does any of you people know about cccl [http://cccl.sourceforge.net/]?
>
> Yes.  It's helpful already for some things Autoconf assumes.

Nice. I'll try it out.

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