Re: func_convert_file_cygwin_to_w32 woes

[Dan McMahill]

On 1/4/2011 11:44 AM, Peter Rosin wrote:
> Den 2011-01-04 05:39 skrev Dan McMahill:
>> On 1/2/2011 12:37 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>>> Hi Dan,
>>>
>>> * Dan McMahill wrote on Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 04:53:25AM CET:
>>>> I am trying to build a program under cygwin but using the mingw tool
>>>> chain in a fake cross build way.  In my configure environment, I have:
>>>>
>>>>  export lt_cv_to_tool_file_cmd=func_convert_file_cygwin_to_w32
>>>>
>>>> as suggested by the libtool manual.  I'm using libtool 2.4.
>>>>
>>>> Everything goes smoothly until install time when libtool calls ranlib
>>>> (the mingw one) on an absolute path and of course the cygwin absolute
>>>> path doesn't make sense to the mingw ranlib.  I thought that's what the
>>>> func_convert... bit was for.
>>>
>>> Please copy and paste 'libtool --mode={link,relink,install}' commands
>>> for the libraries and programs involved.  We may provide better help
>>> then.
>>
>> attached.
> 
> Ok, I found a couple of minutes to look at this. Can you check if this
> patch helps?
> 
> (It still needs a ChangeLog etc...)
> 
> Cheers,
> Peter
> 


I'm not running a git version but applying the patch to the libtool-2.4
I was using worked.  This seems to address the problem.

Many thanks.

-Dan