[patch #6442] Allow Microsoft lib to be used as the archiver.

2008-03-04 Thread Peter Rosin
URL: Summary: Allow Microsoft lib to be used as the archiver. Project: GNU Libtool Submitted by: pekberg Submitted on: Tuesday 03/04/2008 at 10:52 Category: None Prior

[patch #6443] [MSVC 2/7] On Windows, find potential libs regardless of file name case.

2008-03-04 Thread Peter Rosin
URL: Summary: [MSVC 2/7] On Windows, find potential libs regardless of file name case. Project: GNU Libtool Submitted by: pekberg Submitted on: Tuesday 03/04/2008 at 10:56 Category: N

[patch #6444] [MSVC 3/7] The MSVC linker doesn't have a -L option

2008-03-04 Thread Peter Rosin
URL: Summary: [MSVC 3/7] The MSVC linker doesn't have a -L option Project: GNU Libtool Submitted by: pekberg Submitted on: Tuesday 03/04/2008 at 10:58 Category: None P

[patch #6445] [MSVC 4/7] MSVC needs a hint to force it to compile either as C or C++.

2008-03-04 Thread Peter Rosin
URL: Summary: [MSVC 4/7] MSVC needs a hint to force it to compile either as C or C++. Project: GNU Libtool Submitted by: pekberg Submitted on: Tuesday 03/04/2008 at 10:59 Category: No

[patch #6446] MSVC [5/7] MSVC doesn't support the -l option, instead it expects the exact library file name

2008-03-04 Thread Peter Rosin
URL: Summary: MSVC [5/7] MSVC doesn't support the -l option, instead it expects the exact library file name Project: GNU Libtool Submitted by: pekberg Submitted on: Tuesday 03/04/2008 at 11:01

[patch #6447] MSVC [6/7] Indicate if the archiver supports a listing file

2008-03-04 Thread Peter Rosin
URL: Summary: MSVC [6/7] Indicate if the archiver supports a listing file Project: GNU Libtool Submitted by: pekberg Submitted on: Tuesday 03/04/2008 at 11:03 Category: None

[patch #6448] [MSVC 7/7] Add MSVC Support

2008-03-04 Thread Peter Rosin
URL: Summary: [MSVC 7/7] Add MSVC Support Project: GNU Libtool Submitted by: pekberg Submitted on: Tuesday 03/04/2008 at 11:04 Category: None Priority: 5 - Normal

[patch #6442] [MSVC 1/7] Allow Microsoft lib to be used as the archiver.

2008-03-04 Thread Peter Rosin
Update of patch #6442 (project libtool): Summary: Allow Microsoft lib to be used as the archiver. => [MSVC 1/7] Allow Microsoft lib to be used as the archiver. ___ Follow-up Comment #1: * libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 (_L

[patch #6448] [MSVC 7/7] Add MSVC Support

2008-03-04 Thread Peter Rosin
Follow-up Comment #1, patch #6448 (project libtool): I have no problems with this patch series on either mingw, nor cygwin. I have not found a functioning cccl to test with. I have tried both cccl 0.03 as found on sf.net and cccl 0.05 as found on http://tsunanet.net/~tsuna/cccl Niether cccl can

git? branch-2-2?

2008-03-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello libtoolers, 1) Can we move to use git now? 2) Can we create a branch-2-2 and cherry-pick bugfixes from HEAD into it, aiming for a soonish 2.2.2 (let's say, in a few weeks; already a few important issues are known)? 3) If yes and yes, do you agree with the proposed git policy: master should

Re: libltdl memory corruption

2008-03-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Peter, * Peter O'Gorman wrote on Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 07:14:51AM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > So I'd appreciate a review of this, and also test results on systems > > with loaders other than preopen and dlopen. (I haven't even tested > > successful compilation on those other systems.

FYI: fix doc typo

2008-03-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
I applied this tiny fix. Cheers, Ralf 2008-03-04 Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * doc/libtool.texi (Module loaders for libltdl): Fix typo. Index: doc/libtool.texi === RCS file: /cvsroot/libtool/libtool/doc/libtool.te

libtool generated by "GNU $PACKAGE" (was: [libtool 2.2] testsuite: 34 failed)

2008-03-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Roberto Bagnara wrote on Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:14:48PM CET: > P.S. In ./libtool there is the line > ># Generated automatically by config.status (GNU ppl) 0.10pre16 > > `ppl' is indeed the short name of the project. I don't know > why it is preceded by "GNU". Fixed with the p

Re: git? branch-2-2?

2008-03-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello libtoolers, I think that this topic should be discussed on [EMAIL PROTECTED] before the final decision because not only libtool maintainers retrieve sources and submit patches based on the version control system. 3) If yes and yes, do you a

mode=execute argument munging bug (was: [libtool 2.2] testsuite: 34 failed)

2008-03-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Roberto, * Roberto Bagnara wrote on Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:14:48PM CET: > > $ cat mycommand > #!/bin/sh > echo "mycommand invoked with argument '$1'" > $ mycommand ciao > mycommand invoked with argument 'ciao' > $ ./libtool --mode=execute mycommand ciao > mycommand invoked with argument '/h

Re: git? branch-2-2?

2008-03-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bob, * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:23:57PM CET: > > I think that this topic should be discussed on [EMAIL PROTECTED] before > the final decision because not only libtool maintainers retrieve sources > and submit patches based on the version control system. Sure, why not

Re: git? branch-2-2?

2008-03-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: And no, emailing of patches is not more often necessary than now, i.e., mostly for posting "OK to apply" mails. That can even be done more easily, since there is a "git format-patch" command which will create formatted message(s) for this purpose. So

Re: git? branch-2-2?

2008-03-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 11:04:39PM CET: > On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >> And no, emailing of patches is not more often necessary than now, i.e., >> mostly for posting "OK to apply" mails. That can even be done more >> easily, since there is a "git format-pa

Re: git? branch-2-2?

2008-03-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: As far as cramping Gary's style goes, Gary (only used as an example here) is prone to making large changes, and these changes may soon render 'master' useless as a good source of patches for stable branches. Ah, no, this problem is easily avoided. git

libltdl skips dlopen loader if there are others

2008-03-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, this fixes one of the most long-standing regressions of 2.2 over branch-1-5. It causes issues on every system that has not only the dlopen loader, but also another one. I bet this is the cause for some long-standing issues on w32. On HP-UX, the lt_dladvise test fails with | ../../libtool

Re: git? branch-2-2?

2008-03-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: My point is that as the master version advances in time, the baseline for submitted patches will become more and more different. Eventually a patch from the master version can not reasonably be applied against a stable branch. That's no different to

Re: git? branch-2-2?

2008-03-04 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hallo Ralf, On 4 Mar 2008, at 15:56, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: 1) Can we move to use git now? Finally!! Yes, please. 2) Can we create a branch-2-2 and cherry-pick bugfixes from HEAD into it, aiming for a soonish 2.2.2 (let's say, in a few weeks; already a few important issues are known)? Is C

Re: git? branch-2-2?

2008-03-04 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Howdy Bob, On 4 Mar 2008, at 17:29, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: As far as cramping Gary's style goes, Gary (only used as an example here) is prone to making large changes, and these changes may soon render 'master' useless as a good source of patches for st

Re: libltdl skips dlopen loader if there are others

2008-03-04 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Ouch :-( Nice catch. On 4 Mar 2008, at 17:31, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Gary, could you take care of pushing this change to upstream slist users if any? No other active projects are using slist to my knowledge (excepting some non-GNU stuff of my own). I have got some slist unit tests some

Re: git? branch-2-2?

2008-03-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 3/4/2008 1:56 PM: | Hello libtoolers, | | 1) Can we move to use git now? I sure hope so! It appears to have worked out well for coreutils, autoconf, automake, m4, and gnulib, which are all closely related projects. |

Re: libtool generated by "GNU $PACKAGE"

2008-03-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 3/4/2008 2:14 PM: | Fixed with the patch below. I don't care much that, in the Libtool | package itself, the will result in a libtool script with the line | # Generated automatically by config.status (libtool 1.2600 20

Re: git? branch-2-2?

2008-03-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Gary, * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:10:30AM CET: > On 4 Mar 2008, at 15:56, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >> 2) Can we create a branch-2-2 and cherry-pick bugfixes from HEAD >> into it, aiming for a soonish 2.2.2 (let's say, in a few weeks; >> already a few important issues are

Re: git? branch-2-2?

2008-03-04 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> I think we should wait until we are reasonably sure that we won't need a >> maintenance release for several weeks before cutting over to git. 2.2.2 >> in a few weeks is a worthy goal (2.1b and 2.2 were on the first of the >> month, so April 1st seems like a good targe