Re: Confusing libtool behaviour on cygwin

[Maarten Boekhold]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> My understanding is that for non-module DLLs, the .dll file is installed 
> in the bin directory so it is likely to be in the user's path.  If the 

Then how does libtool decide whether a DLL is a (non)-module? The 
--module flag? (looking through the sources... yes, those libs that got 
installed in the bin dir didn't have LDFLAGS --module...)

> directory.  I do not know why some module DLLs start with 'cyg' while 
> others start with 'lib'.  Is the same version of libtool used to build 
> all the modules?

It might not have been. I discovered during the process that XFCE ships 
aclocal.m4 as part of the CVS, and that --force was not used to copy the 
local version of libtool. These 'cygXXX.dll' files in the modules/ 
directory might be from before I set ACLOCAL_FLAGS="--force"... I'll 
rebuild the whole thing later, once the XFCE developers have accepted my 
patches.

Maarten