Re: gnulib and automake

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Nov-2009, Benjamin Lindner wrote:

| John W. Eaton wrote:
| > 
| > Ah, but Windows doesn't have symbolic links and $(LN_S) is just cp, so
| > I guess this fails.  
| 
| Windows has a kind of "symbolic links", but only with absolute paths,
| not with relative paths. But I'm not sure if they are supported in msys.
| So you can't do what you can do with links on unix filesystems
| 
| > OK, I think what we need to do is
| > 
| >   cd DLD-FUNCTIONS && $(LN_S) .libs/foo.dll foo.oct
| > 
| > so that it will work correctly with either cp or "ln -s".  I've made a
| > change that should do this correctly now.  The updated versinon of my
| > patch is now on http://jweaton.org/automake-diffs.gz. This version of
| > the patch includes all the other changes I made on Friday.
| 
| Works fine,
| make now completes beyond building all dld-functions.
| It's stuck building the doumentation, but I expected that.
| I need to translate my local patches and get shared libstdc++ working
| with libtool to get octave finally up and running

Does it link and run now, even without a shared libstdc++?

What are the problems with building the documentation?  Is it anything
that we should fix before checking the the changes to the main
development branch?  If not, then I'd like to go ahead and check it in
today.

Thanks,

jwe