libtool-devel problem with building 'dummy' exe

[Charles Wilson]

Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> /expat/expat-1.95.6/.obj/libtool: cannot create .libs/lt-xmlwf/xmlwf.c: directory nonexistent

I've never seen this before: libtool trying to create a .c file in a 
subdirectory of the .libs dir.  Now, this .c file is autogenerated; it's 
the source code that is used to build the "binary wrapper" -- which 
simply calls the shell-script wrapper that libtool has used for ages to 
set the environment properly before running an uninstalled executable.

The binary wrapper is necessary to fool make into not rebuilding the 
"real" executable over and over and over. Eventually, all of the 
functionality of the shell-script wrapper can be folded into the binary 
wrapper instead, and the shell-script wrapper can be eliminated -- but 
not yet.

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