Hi Ralf,
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>
> Harald, please consider *providing more and useful information* if you
> want help. I for one can't read your mind, and almost every first post
> of yours leaves me wanting for a crystal ball as to what has gone wrong.
> This makes me for one be less and less
PS: Sorry, I pasted the wrong Makefile.am into the EMail, see below.
Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Hi Ralf,
>
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>
>>Harald, please consider *providing more and useful information* if you
>>want help. I for one can't read your mind, and almost every first post
>>of yours leaves m
* Harald Dunkel wrote on Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:12:33PM CET:
>
> Here is a sample.
*snip*
Thank you!
> Autoconf is 2.59, plus Stepan's patch for c.m4, see attachment
> Automake is 1.9.6
> platform is Linux
> build platform is Windows, using MSVC 7.1.
OK. The installation of the `compile' scri
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:46:45PM CET:
> * Harald Dunkel wrote on Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:12:33PM CET:
> >
> > The patch provided by Stepan some months ago fixes
> > AM_PROG_CC_C_O for Windows and MSVC, i.e. configure recognizes
> > that -c -o doesn't work as expected for
Hi Ralf,
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>
> Erm. Before continuing on this road any further: have you tried using
> cccl? It's a wrapper script for MSVC designed to do exactly what looks
> like quite a bit of work inside the autotools. I'm not saying it can't
> be done, or should not be done, but it h
Hi Harald,
* Harald Dunkel wrote on Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 09:05:47AM CET:
>
> There might be yet another problem with supporting msvc: Bill's
> libraries are not built by 'ar cru', either. AFAIK they have
> to be built using link.exe, e.g.
>
> link.exe /lib /OUT:libmylib.lib foo.obj bar.obj
Hi Ralf,
Unfortunately, I haven't gotten around to final testing and applying all
of his patches. I can't promise when I'll be able to do that, but I
certainly would like to see it applied; all I definitely want to avoid
is any regressions for other systems (non-MSVC w32, or non-w32). Nobody
Hi Harald,
* Harald Dunkel wrote on Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 06:44:12PM CET:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >
> > Please consider this thread:
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2005-10/msg00069.html
>
> How is this thread related to copying a missing script?
It shows that your patch is not
