Re: libtool 1.5.14 on mingw: DLLs must be installed executable

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Bruno,

* Bruno Haible wrote on Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 03:07:33PM CEST:
> 
> Using libtool 1.5.14 to install libiconv built for mingw, any program linked
> against the such installed libiconv-2.dll crashes on startup with a dialog
> box:
>     The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000022)
> 
> The reason, as explained in
> http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg23724.html
> is that libtool installs the DLL without the execution bit. Here is a fix.

Erm, the fix is fine, but what caused the breakage in the first place?
Surely this hasn't been broken all the time?

Cheers,
Ralf

> 2005-07-08  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * libtool.m4 (postinstall_cmds) [cygwin,mingw,pw32]: Make DLL
>       executable after installing it.