libtool mingw cross compile problems

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Hi all,

I have a project that uses autoconf/automake/libitool etc. The
build system worked as recently as a month ago for both native
compiles on linux and cross compiles from linux to windows.
Unfortnately, linux to wndows cross compiles suddenly stopped
working with libtool 2.4 from Debian testing.

The problem is the generation of a test program in a sub-directory.
The test program that should be generated is:

    G72x/g72x_test.$(EXEEXT)

which executes a a wrapper script in G72x/.libs/ . Unfortunately
for Linux -> windows cross compiles, the G72x/g72x_test.$(EXEEXT)
executable isn't being generated. There is however a bash script
G72x/.libs/g72x_test_ltshwrapper.

Software versions:

    autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.68
    automake (GNU automake) 1.11.1
    libtool (GNU libtool) 2.4

All from Debian Testing.

I've tried downgrading libtool to 2.2.6b, but that resulted in a
huge spew of errors from autoconf.

Is this a known problem? Any possible solutions?

Cheers,
Erik
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