Re: [Man-db-devel] [PATCH] Fix Windows/PE shared library linking

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 02:44:40PM +0100, Redfoxmoon wrote:
> diff -ru man-db-2.7.5.orig/lib/Makefile.am man-db-2.7.5/lib/Makefile.am
[...]
> Needed to build the two shared libraries libman and libmandb for midipix
> and other PE targets

Hi,

I'm going through some old man-db-related email today, and noticed that
I'd never responded to this.  Sorry about that!

I suspect that, at least, the details of any failure you may get will be
quite different on current versions of man-db.  Version 2.8.7 rearranged
how the database file name is passed around, which accounts for some of
your patch:

  https://gitlab.com/cjwatson/man-db/-/commit/a97d977b0b

... and version 2.10.1 rearranged how linking works on Windows/PE
platforms:

  https://gitlab.com/cjwatson/man-db/-/commit/545276705c

If you're still around, would you mind re-testing to see whether man-db
2.10.1 works on your platform now, or whether there are still issues?

Thanks,

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson@debian.org]