Re: m4 from cvs, cygwin

[Gary V . Vaughan]

Hi Chuck!

On Saturday, September 13, 2003, at 08:26  pm, Charles Wilson wrote:
> I was messing around with the latest m4 sources the other day 
> (2003-09-12) and found a few things that needed changing in order to 
> build on cygwin.

Excellent, this is much appreciated as I don't have access to a cygwin 
machine since I upgraded to an iBook.

> I was able to build a static version -- that did not work at all 
> thanks to problems with libltdl and static "lt_dlopen".

Hmm.  I'd be interested in trying to sort this out too.  Is preloading 
broken on cygwin?

> OTOH, I could also build a dynamic version that worked pretty well. 
> Most of the changes (necessary for both builds to complete) involved 
> adding $(LTLIBINTL) to the _LDFLAGS of every module, and some autoconf 
> tweaks.

I'm applying the majority of this.  Can you retest when you see the 
patch go in please?

> I also did some truly horrendous things to get the perl module to 
> build (tricking libtool into linking a dll even though it depends on 
> the static libutil, libcrypt, and DynaLoader.a).  It might be better 
> to just drop support for the perl module in cygwin...

Ick!  I'm thinking of dropping Perl support altogether... it's all a 
nasty hack.  If I can get guile or python to work as a loadable module, 
then perl is definitely outa here! :-)

> Anyway, if you're interested, I've attached the patches (to build 
> dynamicly, apply the -static patch first, and then apply the -dll 
> patch)  I've also included the testsuite logs for both.

Most definitely.  Thanks.  Please supply a ChangeLog entry next time.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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