Re: gnulib and automake

[Benjamin Lindner]

Benjamin Lindner wrote:
>  From what I saw until now, if I patch libtool as above and we get the 
> dependency libraries for libcruft (possibly also for liboctave and 
> liboctinterp?) right, then it should work.
> I'm curious how the .oct creation will behave.

An update:

Using the following patch for the generated libtool

--- .build_mingw32_octave-tip-automake-ref-4_gcc-4.4.0-dw2/libtool 
2009-10-31 11:08:08 +0100
+++ .build_mingw32_octave-tip-automake-4_gcc-4.4.0-dw2/libtool 
2009-10-31 11:39:24 +0100
@@ -7744,7 +7744,7 @@
        if test "$allow_undefined" = yes; then
          if test "$allow_undefined_flag" = unsupported; then
 	    func_warning "undefined symbols not allowed in $host shared 
libraries"
-           build_libtool_libs=no
+           build_libtool_libs=yes
            build_old_libs=yes
          fi
        else


and the following change on octave's makefile sources

diff -r 5382a2ab87e7 libcruft/Makefile.am
--- a/libcruft/Makefile.am      Fri Oct 30 11:10:14 2009 -0400
+++ b/libcruft/Makefile.am      Sat Oct 31 14:08:00 2009 +0100
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@

 libcruft_la_LDFLAGS = -release $(version)

+libcruft_la_LIBADD = $(LAPACK_LIBS) $(BLAS_LIBS) $(FLIBS)
+
 octinclude_HEADERS =

 EXTRA_DIST = ChangeLog STOP.patch mkf77def.in
diff -r 5382a2ab87e7 liboctave/Makefile.am
--- a/liboctave/Makefile.am     Fri Oct 30 11:10:14 2009 -0400
+++ b/liboctave/Makefile.am     Sat Oct 31 14:08:00 2009 +0100
@@ -494,10 +494,10 @@
 LINK_DEPS = \
   $(RLD_FLAG) \
   ../libcruft/libcruft.la \
-  $(SPARSE_LDFLAGS) $(SPARSE_LIBS) \
+  $(SPARSE_LDFLAGS) $(SPARSE_XLIBS) \
   $(ARPACK_LIBS) \
   $(QRUPDATE_LIBS) \
-  $(FFTW_LDFLAGS) $(FFTW_LIBS) \
+  $(FFTW_LDFLAGS) $(FFTW_XLIBS) \
   $(LAPACK_LIBS) $(BLAS_LIBS) \
   $(READLINE_LIBS) $(TERM_LIBS) \
   $(LIBGLOB) $(REGEX_LIBS) $(DL_LIBS) \

I get both cruft.dll and octave.dll

However, building liboctinterp still fails. No shared library is created 
and building .oct file fails with a lot of "undefined reference" errors.
I need to debug further.

benjamin