Re: libtool (alpha)

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Julien,

* Julien Lecomte wrote on Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 04:51:54AM CET:
> 
> I've installed the libtool alpha cvs build under MinGW.
> Configuration and install was made under mSys (after replacing 
> config.{guess,sub}):
> 
> ../alpha/configure --prefix=/usr
> make
> 
> Of note:  I configured and installed under mSys because under MinGW it 
> fails (undefined reference to `lt_libltdl_LTX_preloaded_symbols')

Weird.  I haven't tested MinGW a while, but last time it worked fine.
Need to look into this.  I have never tested MSYS, though.

> When I run a `libtool --help', I get :
>   host-triplet:     powerpc-apple-darwin8.2.0
*snip*
> How come the host-triplet is detected as *Darwin* ???
> If I run `./config.sub `./config.guess`' in the 'libltdl/config' 
> directory, I get the normal 'i686-pc-msys' or 'i686-pc-mingw32'.
> I also get the expected normal response in the ./configure output.

Thanks for the bug report!  I'm installing this patch to fix this.

Cheers,
Ralf

        * libltdl/config/getopt.m4sh (func_help): Substitute `$host'.
        * libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh (help message): Use $host not
        @host_triplet@, as the address@hidden@' substitution is done at 
bootstrap
        time already.
        Reported by Julien Lecomte <address@hidden>.

Index: libltdl/config/getopt.m4sh
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/libtool/libtool/libltdl/config/getopt.m4sh,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 getopt.m4sh
--- libltdl/config/getopt.m4sh  23 Jan 2006 18:33:57 -0000      1.4
+++ libltdl/config/getopt.m4sh  15 Feb 2006 07:28:34 -0000
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
         s/^# //
        s/^# *$//
        s*\$progname*'$progname'*
+       s*\$host*'"$host"'*
        s*\$SHELL*'"$SHELL"'*
        s*\$LTCC*'"$LTCC"'*
        s*\$LTCFLAGS*'"$LTCFLAGS"'*
Index: libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/libtool/libtool/libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh,v
retrieving revision 1.37
diff -u -r1.37 ltmain.m4sh
--- libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh  13 Feb 2006 17:02:28 -0000      1.37
+++ libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh  15 Feb 2006 07:28:34 -0000
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
 # When reporting a bug, please describe a test case to reproduce it and
 # include the following information:
 #
-#       host-triplet:  @host_triplet@
+#       host-triplet:  $host
 #       shell:         $SHELL
 #       compiler:              $LTCC
 #       compiler flags:                $LTCFLAGS