Re: problem when cross compiling with mingw32ce

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Vincent,

* Vincent Torri wrote on Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:18:28AM CEST:
>
> Now I have a problem with libm.a. The ptch you provided is good for all  
> the static lib i currently used, but recently i had to use libm.a (more  
> precisely, it's libtool which adds -lm when c++ code is used).

>  * arm-mingw32ce-nm -f posix -A ~/local/opt/mingw32ce/arm-mingw32ce/lib/libm.a
>
> /home/torri/local/opt/mingw32ce/arm-mingw32ce/lib/libm.a[_libm_dummy.o]: .bss 
> b 00000000
> /home/torri/local/opt/mingw32ce/arm-mingw32ce/lib/libm.a[_libm_dummy.o]: 
> .data d 00000000
> /home/torri/local/opt/mingw32ce/arm-mingw32ce/lib/libm.a[_libm_dummy.o]: 
> .debug_abbrev N 00000000
> /home/torri/local/opt/mingw32ce/arm-mingw32ce/lib/libm.a[_libm_dummy.o]: 
> .debug_info N 00000000
> /home/torri/local/opt/mingw32ce/arm-mingw32ce/lib/libm.a[_libm_dummy.o]: 
> .debug_line N 00000000
> /home/torri/local/opt/mingw32ce/arm-mingw32ce/lib/libm.a[_libm_dummy.o]: 
> .text t 00000000

Since this is a dummy library only, the prudent thing for libtool to do
would be just to drop instances of -lm.  This is already done for some
other hosts.

I hope to address all the pending Libtool issues soonish.

Cheers,
Ralf