Re: mingw win64 comatibility

[Alon Bar-Lev]

Hello Raf,

Any news?
Can I do anything to help?

Alon.

On 10/21/08, Alon Bar-Lev <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  Used git head.
>  Before I use cross compile, I tried to see if all tests pass on local 
> compiler.
>
>  My system (gentoo) has the following versions:
>  sys-devel/m4-1.4.11
>  sys-devel/autoconf-2.61-r2
>  sys-devel/automake-1.10.1-r1
>  sys-devel/libtool-1.5.26
>
>  Attached is the native log and win64 log (after the fix).
>
>  You should add *.exe to ignore... :)
>
>  Thanks!
>
> Alon.
>
>
>  On 10/21/08, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
>  > Hello Alon,
>  >
>  >  Thanks for the report.
>  >
>  >  * Alon Bar-Lev wrote on Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 03:19:50PM CEST:
>  >
>  > >
>  >  > The func_win32_libid is not working correctly when win64 objects are 
> found.
>  >  > The file format is "file format pe-x86-64".
>  >  >
>  >  > The attached patches for 1.5.26, 2.2.6a for the resulting libtool 
> script.
>  >  > I did not know where to put this in libtool source, can you please
>  >  > look into it?
>  >
>  >
>  > It needs to be done in libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh.
>  >
>  >
>  >  > --- libtool.2.2.6a    2008-10-20 14:21:57.000000000 +0200
>  >  > +++ libtool   2008-10-20 14:21:42.000000000 +0200
>  >  > @@ -3073,7 +3073,7 @@ func_win32_libid ()
>  >  >      ;;
>  >  >    *ar\ archive*) # could be an import, or static
>  >  >      if eval $OBJDUMP -f $1 | $SED -e '10q' 2>/dev/null |
>  >  > -       $EGREP 'file format pe-i386(.*architecture: i386)?' >/dev/null 
> ; then
>  >  > +       $EGREP 'file format pe-i386(.*architecture: i386)?|file format 
> pe-x86-64?' >/dev/null ; then
>  >
>  >
>  > The trailing ? after pe-x86-64 is wrong, pleasse drop it.
>  >
>  >
>  >  >        win32_nmres=`eval $NM -f posix -A $1 |
>  >  >       $SED -n -e '
>  >  >           1,100{
>  >
>  >
>  > Can you be bothered to check out the Libtool git tree or a nightly
>  >  snapshot (see homepage for links) and, with above change, build it
>  >  and run the testsuite on win64, please?  We'd be interested in any
>  >  failures of
>  >   make -k check
>  >
>  >  (add VERBOSE=yes for verbose output of the old testsuite, and send
>  >  tests/testsuite.log for failure of the new one).
>  >
>  >  You'd need Autoconf for rebuilding Libtool, and also Automake for
>  >  running all tests.
>  >
>  >  Thanks!
>  >
>  > Ralf
>  >
>
>