Re: Crash with libtool geneated import *.libs for dll(s) in MSVC++ Release target (Debug OK)

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Francesco Pretto wrote on Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 02:24:24PM CEST:
> 2011/4/2 Ralf Wildenhues:
> >
> > IIUC this is a bug in dlltool, and exposed by using libtool because that
> > invokes dlltool, right?
> 
> So you say libtool can act as a wrapper for dlltool?

Erm, that's probably promising too much.  libtool may make use of
dlltool in some way.  git master uses it in func_cygming_dll_for_implib
as 'dlltool --identify-strict --identify', but currently not in other
ways.

> Didn't know,
> sorry. There were a general confusion of users/devs of ffmpeg for
> Windows and I think we all assumed that it was libtool to generate
> libs interfaces, while it seems now that it was dlltool.

Ah, ok.  Good.

> >  We should get that reported to the binutils developers
> > so it can be fixed upstream.
> 
> Please, can you point me the correct place where I should report this problem?
> I see two options:
> - dlltool says to report bugs to http://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/ ;
> - address@hidden .

The latter is the mailing list which receives bugzilla mail copies of
all updates made to the former.  :-)

Cheers,
Ralf