Re: gnulib and automake

[John W. Eaton]

On 31-Oct-2009, Benjamin Lindner wrote:

| Benjamin Lindner wrote:
| > 
| >  From what I saw until now, if I patch libtool as above and we get the 
| > dependency libraries for libcruft (possibly also for liboctave and 
| > liboctinterp?) right, then it should work.
| > I'm curious how the .oct creation will behave.
| > 
| 
| An update:
| 
| Using the following patch for the generated libtool
| 
| --- .build_mingw32_octave-tip-automake-ref-4_gcc-4.4.0-dw2/libtool 
| 2009-10-31 11:08:08 +0100
| +++ .build_mingw32_octave-tip-automake-4_gcc-4.4.0-dw2/libtool 
| 2009-10-31 11:39:24 +0100
| @@ -7744,7 +7744,7 @@
|       if test "$allow_undefined" = yes; then
|         if test "$allow_undefined_flag" = unsupported; then
|           func_warning "undefined symbols not allowed in $host shared 
| libraries"
| -         build_libtool_libs=no
| +         build_libtool_libs=yes
|           build_old_libs=yes
|         fi
|       else

Is this needed if you use the win32-dll option for LT_INIT in
configure.ac?

| and the following change on octave's makefile sources
| 
| diff -r 5382a2ab87e7 libcruft/Makefile.am
| --- a/libcruft/Makefile.am    Fri Oct 30 11:10:14 2009 -0400
| +++ b/libcruft/Makefile.am    Sat Oct 31 14:08:00 2009 +0100
| @@ -31,6 +31,8 @@
| 
|   libcruft_la_LDFLAGS = -release $(version)
| 
| +libcruft_la_LIBADD = $(LAPACK_LIBS) $(BLAS_LIBS) $(FLIBS)
| +
|   octinclude_HEADERS =
| 
|   EXTRA_DIST = ChangeLog STOP.patch mkf77def.in
| diff -r 5382a2ab87e7 liboctave/Makefile.am
| --- a/liboctave/Makefile.am   Fri Oct 30 11:10:14 2009 -0400
| +++ b/liboctave/Makefile.am   Sat Oct 31 14:08:00 2009 +0100
| @@ -494,10 +494,10 @@
|   LINK_DEPS = \
|     $(RLD_FLAG) \
|     ../libcruft/libcruft.la \
| -  $(SPARSE_LDFLAGS) $(SPARSE_LIBS) \
| +  $(SPARSE_LDFLAGS) $(SPARSE_XLIBS) \
|     $(ARPACK_LIBS) \
|     $(QRUPDATE_LIBS) \
| -  $(FFTW_LDFLAGS) $(FFTW_LIBS) \
| +  $(FFTW_LDFLAGS) $(FFTW_XLIBS) \
|     $(LAPACK_LIBS) $(BLAS_LIBS) \
|     $(READLINE_LIBS) $(TERM_LIBS) \
|     $(LIBGLOB) $(REGEX_LIBS) $(DL_LIBS) \
| 
| I get both cruft.dll and octave.dll
| 
| However, building liboctinterp still fails. No shared library is created 
| and building .oct file fails with a lot of "undefined reference" errors.
| I need to debug further.

I made these changes.

Thanks,

jwe