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Re: How to install-libLTLIBRARIES dll to bin?


Charles Wilson wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>>   Only libtool knows about the DLL.  Only the Makefile knows about the setting
>> of $bindir from configure.  Currently however the Makefile only passes the
>> path to the output in $libdir.  Therefore ISTM that the only correct solution
>> is to add a --bindir= option to libtool and modify automake or libtoolise to
>> ensure it gets passed by the makefiles when they invoke libtool.
> 
> Agreed.  This is still on my TODO list for the cygwin version of
> libtool, and (obviously) for eventual submission to upstream.  However,
> if somebody beats me to it, PTC.

  Something like this?  Untested as yet, I'm going to put it through a gcc
bootstrap cycle.  Should I be worried about stripping any final slash off the
-bindir option to avoid inadvertent doubling-up when I append "/bin/...", do you
reckon?

    cheers,
      DaveK


diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index a18955e..129b890 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -494,7 +494,8 @@ TESTSUITE_AT	= tests/testsuite.at \
 		  tests/configure-iface.at \
 		  tests/stresstest.at \
 		  tests/cmdline_wrap.at \
-		  tests/darwin.at
+		  tests/darwin.at \
+		  tests/win32.at
 
 EXTRA_DIST     += $(srcdir)/$(TESTSUITE) $(TESTSUITE_AT) $(srcdir)/tests/package.m4
 
diff --git a/libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh b/libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index ebd3909..a1889d3
--- a/libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh
+++ b/libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh
@@ -1129,6 +1129,8 @@ The following components of LINK-COMMAND are treated specially:
 
   -all-static       do not do any dynamic linking at all
   -avoid-version    do not add a version suffix if possible
+  -bindir BINDIR    specify path to $prefix/bin (needed only when installing
+                    a Windows DLL)
   -dlopen FILE      \`-dlpreopen' FILE if it cannot be dlopened at runtime
   -dlpreopen FILE   link in FILE and add its symbols to lt_preloaded_symbols
   -export-dynamic   allow symbols from OUTPUT-FILE to be resolved with dlsym(3)
@@ -3659,6 +3661,7 @@ func_mode_link ()
     new_inherited_linker_flags=
 
     avoid_version=no
+    bindir=
     dlfiles=
     dlprefiles=
     dlself=no
@@ -3751,6 +3754,11 @@ func_mode_link ()
 	esac
 
 	case $prev in
+	bindir)
+	  bindir="$arg"
+	  prev=
+	  continue
+	  ;;
 	dlfiles|dlprefiles)
 	  if test "$preload" = no; then
 	    # Add the symbol object into the linking commands.
@@ -4012,6 +4020,11 @@ func_mode_link ()
 	continue
 	;;
 
+      -bindir)
+	prev=bindir
+	continue
+	;;
+
       -dlopen)
 	prev=dlfiles
 	continue
@@ -7706,7 +7719,13 @@ EOF
 	  # place dlname in correct position for cygwin
 	  tdlname=$dlname
 	  case $host,$output,$installed,$module,$dlname in
-	    *cygwin*,*lai,yes,no,*.dll | *mingw*,*lai,yes,no,*.dll | *cegcc*,*lai,yes,no,*.dll) tdlname=../bin/$dlname ;;
+	    *cygwin*,*lai,yes,no,*.dll | *mingw*,*lai,yes,no,*.dll | *cegcc*,*lai,yes,no,*.dll)
+	      tdlname=../bin/$dlname
+	      if test "x$bindir" != "x" ;
+	      then
+		tdlname=$bindir/$dlname
+	      fi
+	      ;;
 	  esac
 	  $ECHO > $output "\
 # $outputname - a libtool library file

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