Re: [Mingw-users] Re: "Re: libbfd, libtool & Win32" and "Re: Building a MinGW GLibetc..."

[Earnie Boyd]

Max Bowsher wrote:
> 
> Guido Draheim wrote:
> > (B) final $dlname to ../bin/$dlname - interesting way to do about this
> >      but probably interfering with autoconfed installpath specs (I for
> >      one use an ac-macro to make the default of $libdir the same as
> >      $bindir which has the effect of what's needed - to bring the dlls
> >      into $PATH).
> 
> I agree that this is inelegant. Ideally, we would calculate the relative path 
> to
> bindir from libdir, but I don't know how to do that. Anyone?
> 

ls `gcc -print-file-name=specs | sed -e 's/specs//'`../../../../bin

> > (C) what's that install-number-increment-sedscript about?
> 
> The give-dlls-execute-permissions-sedscript? Because on Cygwin with ntsec, the
> dll is installed without execute permission, so cannot be used.
> 

So isn't needed for mingw32 but is needed for cygwin.

Earnie.