Hello,
Eli reported that texi2any in C cannot find the dll in windows and
proposed to have the dll also installed in bindir:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2026-02/msg00090.html
I am trying to implement that and I cannot find an easy way using
automake or libtool. Automake refuses to install libtool libraries in
different directories. So I tried a direct use of libtool, mimicking
automake rules. I tried:
install-data-hook:
$(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)" || exit 1; \
$(LIBTOOL) $(AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS) $(LIBTOOLFLAGS) --mode=install $(INSTALL)
$(INSTALL_STRIP_FLAG) $(library_LTLIBRARIES) "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)";
(To be in a if HOST_IS_WINDOWS conditional).
and also
install-data-hook:
$(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)" || exit 1; \
for ltlibrary in $(library_LTLIBRARIES) ; do $(LIBTOOL)
$(AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS) $(LIBTOOLFLAGS) --mode=install $(INSTALL) $$ltlibrary
"$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)"; done
I tried to test on GNU/Linux, but I get:
/usr/bin/mkdir -p "/home/dumas/tmp/t_inst/usr/local/bin" || exit 1; \
/bin/bash ../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c libtexinfo.la
libtexinfoxs.la libtexinfo-convert.la libtexinfo-convertxs.la
libtexinfo-main.la "/home/dumas/tmp/t_inst/usr/local/bin";
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libtexinfo.so.1.0.0
/home/dumas/tmp/t_inst/usr/local/bin/libtexinfo.so.1.0.0
...
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libtexinfo.lai
/home/dumas/tmp/t_inst/usr/local/bin/libtexinfo.la
libtool: error: error: cannot install 'libtexinfoxs.la' to a directory not
ending in /usr/local/lib/texi2any/lib
or, with the for:
/usr/bin/mkdir -p "/home/dumas/tmp/t_inst/usr/local/bin" || exit 1; \
for ltlibrary in libtexinfo.la libtexinfoxs.la libtexinfo-convert.la
libtexinfo-convertxs.la libtexinfo-main.la ; do /bin/bash ../libtool
--mode=install /usr/bin/install -c $ltlibrary
"/home/dumas/tmp/t_inst/usr/local/bin"; done
...
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libtexinfo.lai
/home/dumas/tmp/t_inst/usr/local/bin/libtexinfo.la
libtool: warning: remember to run 'libtool --finish /usr/local/lib/texi2any/lib'
libtool: error: error: cannot install 'libtexinfoxs.la' to a directory not
ending in /usr/local/lib/texi2any/lib
libtool: error: error: cannot install 'libtexinfo-convert.la' to a directory
not ending in /usr/local/lib/texi2any/lib
libtool: error: error: cannot install 'libtexinfo-convertxs.la' to a
directory not ending in /usr/local/lib/texi2any/lib
libtool: error: error: cannot install 'libtexinfo-main.la' to a directory not
ending in /usr/local/lib/texi2any/lib
It is somewhat strange that it works for the first library.
Searching on the internet, I found one similar issue, but for a unique
installation.
Anybody has an idea? If not I'll ask on a libtool mailing list.
--
Pat
