Re: FYI: libtool--devo--1.0--patch-195

2005-08-29 Thread Peter O'Gorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Schwab wrote: | | Every pass basically reverses deplibs, so if you have an uneven number of | passes | Hi Andreas, Thanks for getting back on this, my complaint was more that we don't have a testcase for this failure. I think I'll go wr

Re: Call for help: Solaris C++ and Sun CC

2005-08-29 Thread Tim Mooney
In regard to: Re: Call for help: Solaris C++ and Sun CC, Ralf Wildenhues...: While I agree in principle that it would be nice for libtool to help people avoid shooting themselves in the foot, I think in this case it's more important to document the danger than it is to completely mitigate it. I

RE: state of MSVC patches for HEAD

2005-08-29 Thread Peter Ekberg
I wrote: > This seems to be because of a problem with the global_symbol_pipe. > Consider the following snippet from the dumpbin output from > foo.obj: > > 00E SECT3 notype External | _nothing > 00F SECT4 notype Static | .text > Section length 2B, #re

Re: FYI: libtool--devo--1.0--patch-195

2005-08-29 Thread Andreas Schwab
Peter O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > >> Gah! I'm lost... These are connected somehow? :-( > > heheh, Hi Gary, sorry. I'm attempting to remove unneeded loops, in case you > hadn't guessed and I noticed this: ># The preopen pass in lib mode reverses $deplib

FYI: typos

2005-08-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Applied to HEAD. * libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 (_LT_SYS_DYNAMIC_LINKER) (_LT_PATH_TOOL_PREFIX, _LT_SYS_HIDDEN_LIBDEPS, _LT_DECL_EGREP): Fix typos. Index: libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 === RCS file: /cvsroot/libtool/libtool/

Re: FYI: libtool--devo--1.0--patch-195

2005-08-29 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Ah, I see. :-( If you want to work on this stuff, and I can't persuade you to help us tackle the last few showstoppers Okay, I guess I can look at the release blockers. It does bug me that there are too many loops over deplibs, I'm convinced that many of them are n

Re: FYI: libtool--devo--1.0--patch-195

2005-08-29 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Peter, On 29 Aug 2005, at 15:52, Peter O'Gorman wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Gah! I'm lost... These are connected somehow? :-( heheh, Hi Gary, sorry. No problem. I'm attempting to remove unneeded loops, in case you hadn't guessed and I noticed this: # The preopen pass in lib

Re: FYI: libtool--devo--1.0--patch-195

2005-08-29 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Gah! I'm lost... These are connected somehow? :-( heheh, Hi Gary, sorry. I'm attempting to remove unneeded loops, in case you hadn't guessed and I noticed this: # The preopen pass in lib mode reverses $deplibs; put it back here # so that -L comes before

Re: FYI: HEAD: workaround for released autotools

2005-08-29 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hallo Ralf! On 29 Aug 2005, at 14:58, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 03:39:04PM CEST: On 29 Aug 2005, at 13:53, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 02:26:16PM CEST: On 29 Aug 2005, at 12:53, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Tha

Re: FYI: libtool--devo--1.0--patch-195

2005-08-29 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Applied to HEAD. from Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The dlpreopen pass over libraries reverses the elements in the $deplibs list. This causes problems when the link pass tri

Re: FYI: libtool--devo--1.0--patch-195

2005-08-29 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Peter, More context please :-) On 29 Aug 2005, at 15:36, Peter O'Gorman wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Applied to HEAD. Referring to this? * config/ltmain.m4sh (func_mode_link) : Add missing bit from Christoph's patch. from Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The dlpreopen pass ov

FYI: HEAD: Fix "make install"

2005-08-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:02:32PM CEST: > OK, here's the long-awaited proposal for a fixed "make install" for CVS > HEAD. I won't commit it until I've tested it on several architectures, > but I'll post it for you to read and complain if necessary. > Notes: > - I'm a bit

FYI: HEAD: workaround for released autotools

2005-08-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 03:39:04PM CEST: > On 29 Aug 2005, at 13:53, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 02:26:16PM CEST: > >>On 29 Aug 2005, at 12:53, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >>> > >>>That would be fine with me. Or a commandline switc

Re: HEAD: workaround for released autotools

2005-08-29 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hallo Ralf, On 29 Aug 2005, at 13:53, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 02:26:16PM CEST: On 29 Aug 2005, at 12:53, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: But you can't expect plain "configure" without options to work. And I test on real-world systems where this is true.

Re: HEAD: workaround for released autotools

2005-08-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Gary, * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 02:26:16PM CEST: > On 29 Aug 2005, at 12:53, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > >But you can't expect plain "configure" without options to work. > >And I test on real-world systems where this is true. > > ACK. We run plain configure in our test/

RE: state of MSVC patches for HEAD

2005-08-29 Thread Peter Ekberg
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Peter, others, > > I've decided to start yet another new thread about this neverending > issue. I've given your patches (and also my pending ones) > another test > round, and something seems to be going very wrong. Since > more than just > one thing changed between

Re: HEAD: workaround for released autotools

2005-08-29 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hallo Ralf, On 29 Aug 2005, at 12:53, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Nono, that's still not what I mean. The line in m4general.m4sh is fine. You call plain ./configure but I have setups where that does not work. To be pedantic: the GNU build system is just not designed to build out-of-the-box ever

bootstrap time (was: ensure $MV is set before each use [libtool--gary--1.0--patch-30])

2005-08-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 12:55:13PM CEST: > On 29 Aug 2005, at 07:33, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > >[ BTW, could you get your mailer to do decent quote wrapping? > >Thanks ] > > I'm at home and using Apple's crappy Mail.app. I'll upgrade to > Thunderbird (like I use at

Re: HEAD: workaround for released autotools

2005-08-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Gary, * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 12:29:29PM CEST: > On 29 Aug 2005, at 07:25, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 10:56:24PM CEST: > >>On 28 Aug 2005, at 20:26, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >Bloat is OK if there is other bloat? > > I pref

Re: correct erroneous comment for LTDL_CONVENIENCE [libtool--gary--1.0--patch-29]

2005-08-29 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hallo Ralf, On 29 Aug 2005, at 07:37, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 01:09:54AM CEST: The documentation in branch-1-5 is misleading. HEAD and branch-1-5 both do the AC_SUBSTs, but the wording in the docs for HEAD is much clearer (I can't find when that h

Re: ensure $MV is set before each use [libtool--gary--1.0--patch-30]

2005-08-29 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
On 29 Aug 2005, at 07:33, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: [ BTW, could you get your mailer to do decent quote wrapping? Thanks ] I'm at home and using Apple's crappy Mail.app. I'll upgrade to Thunderbird (like I use at work) when I have some spare time. Sorry about that. * Gary V. Vaugha

Re: HEAD: workaround for released autotools

2005-08-29 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hallo Ralf, On 29 Aug 2005, at 07:25, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 10:56:24PM CEST: On 28 Aug 2005, at 20:26, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Why, oh why wait another minute for bootstrap to finish? It's not like this would be the first work-around for limitat