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Re: PCRE package for consideration


On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:

> Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
>> In that case, we'll have to wait for his patch to make it to Cygwin's
>> libtool to be able to use libtool for pcre. I will not use a CVS
>> version of libtool to make a release of a package - mostly because I
>> don't know libtool well enough to trust the CVS version blindly
>> (although I have every confidence in the Libtool developers, but IMO,
>> if they thought it was ready for release, they'd release it).
> Um, what?
Never mind :|

> Charles' patch was to PCRE's Makefile.in, not to libtool.
>> As for the patch itself: I haven't seen it (neither on any of the Cygwin
>> lists I read (and the developers list is the only one I don't read
>> regularly) nor on the libtool patch list, so I can't test it here :|
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-04/msg00378.html
> and
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-04/msg00379.html
I wonder why those aren't in my mailbox.. (I seem to have some trouble 
receiving Charles' posts.. according to my mailbox, he hasn't been around 
for ages..)

Anyway:

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 01:24:03 -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> The mistake corrected in the patch below REALLY IS user error -- and has
> been for a long time; it's not a new "wrinkle" dreamed up by 1.5.  
> libtool libraries should NEVER be passed to libtool by "-lfoo" names;
> whenever possible they should be specifies as "libfoo.la".
Which is, of course, completely right.

I'll apply the patch, test it and report back.

If all this works, I'll also ask mr Hazel to relibtoolize and see whether 
the same thing also works on MinGW (if so, consider the ON_WINDOWS crap 
gone).

rlc




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