>From 13aa364c0c66f9f6b41f98772d0735039ac974a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Rosin Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 10:11:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] libtool: fix nm test for MSYS/MinGW The check for the -B option of nm does not work as intended on MSYS/MinGW. MSYS converts /dev/null to the DOW/Windows "equivanent" special file NUL, but the MinGW nm treats this file as any empty file. This means that you might end up with some fallback nm instead of the desired nm. This is not normally a problem, but if one nm is built without lto support, it starts to matter. Fixes sr #108558, reported by LRN. * m4/libtool.m4 (LT_PATH_NM) [MSYS]: Use a non-existant file instead of /dev/null when checking if nm supports -B. Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin --- m4/libtool.m4 | 9 +++++++-- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/m4/libtool.m4 b/m4/libtool.m4 index 0454030..320d8b3 100644 --- a/m4/libtool.m4 +++ b/m4/libtool.m4 @@ -3509,8 +3509,13 @@ else # Adding the 'sed 1q' prevents false positives on HP-UX, which says: # nm: unknown option "B" ignored # Tru64's nm complains that /dev/null is an invalid object file - case `"$tmp_nm" -B /dev/null 2>&1 | sed '1q'` in - */dev/null* | *'Invalid file or object type'*) + # MSYS converts /dev/null to NUL, MinGW nm treats NUL as empty + case $build_os in + mingw*) lt_bad_file=conftest.nm/nofile ;; + *) lt_bad_file=/dev/null ;; + esac + case `"$tmp_nm" -B $lt_bad_file 2>&1 | sed '1q'` in + *$lt_bad_file* | *'Invalid file or object type'*) lt_cv_path_NM="$tmp_nm -B" break 2 ;; -- 1.7.9