mingw32-filesystem, mingw32-w32api, mingw32-runtime

Fridrich Strba fstrba at novell.com
Thu Dec 18 10:21:54 UTC 2008


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Yes, the gnu libiconv for instance will leave in the *.la file the
directory in which the library will be installed and that will create a
problem because libtool will not find it there.

Cheers

F.

Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I'm a bit confused by what the mistake is ..  The *.la files we are
> generating now seem to have correct paths inside them.  Can you point
> to an example where there is a problem?
> 
>> I think that the reason is basically the w32api and mingwrt package
>> where make install does not honour DESTDIR setting. Find attached two
>> patches that will make that DESTDIR to be respected.
>>
>> Also, I sent a proposed (IMHO better) mingw32 macros files. Note that
>> the CLASSPATH variable is not useful for you people if you don't
>> distribute the mingw32-gcc-java cross-compiler that I personally use for
>> building of some java bindings of my private libraries. But the
>> _mingw32_make and _mingw32_makeinstall macros could be considered I
>> guess. I even make the mingw32-make symlink because several non-libtool
>> applications cross-compile much better using mingw32-make which sets all
>> the needed env variables.
> 
> Rich.
> 
> 

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