Observation for ALL maintainers who provide dlls (was Re: question for perl maintainer)

[Gerrit P. Haase]

James R. Phillips wrote:

> --- "Gerrit P. Haase"  wrote:
> 
> 
>>Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Isn't it a configure option?  You can change the "conf()" function to pass
>>>it in.  For linker options, set MY_LDFLAGS in the beginning of the script.
>>>	Igor
>>
> 
>>Doesn't libtool always defines --image-base when building a DLL, or is
>>this only with ancient libtool versions?
>>
>>Gerrit
> 
> 
> 
> Don't know about libtool, but modifying the conf function did no good for
> compiling octave.  The only way I can see to pass this flag to octave is to
> modify the configure script.  I have suggested to upstream a modification to
> configure.in 

I pass the MY_* flags to configure as well as to make for gcc builds.
However a definition in the Makefile triggered by configure is
bulletproof.


Gerrit
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