Hi! * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 14:05 CEST: > Hi Peter, Bob, > > * Peter Ekberg wrote on Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 10:59:23AM CEST: > > * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 01:52 CEST
*snip* > > > Note that the Cygwin GCC is a Cygwin application so using > the Cygwin > > > GCC in "MinGW" mode is not entirely the same. > > > > That much was clear to me... > > Side question: have you tested 'gcc -mno-cygwin' on cygwin much? > I've tried it once, but I believe I need other settings as well to > make it work smoothly. --host? I'm planning on eventually testing > this one thoroughly, too, though. I know people use it. Not much, no. Sorry... > > Anyway, here's a patch to fix this MinGW problem. Makes stresstest > > pass on MinGW if head-filter-data-symbols-3.patch is applied > > and if dumpbin is used as name lister (but the two patches are > > independent and fix separate bugs). > > Looks good, please apply this one, with the really minor spelling nit > below. Could you, by the way, backport this into branch-1-5? Ok, applied to head and backported to 1.5, but commit in 1.5 didn't find sendmail so I think no notification was mailed out to libtool-commit. > Hey, we didn't invent stresstest just to please itself, these are > all bugs in libtool proper, just more or less rarely exposed. Our > docs do not state that the output file name must not be an absolute > path, and as such, it should work to use an absolute path. Agreed, > this one is not very likely to be hit by users. I know, it's just that there's the following little passage in HACKING :-) * If a change fixes a test, mention the test in the ChangeLog entry. Cheers, Peter