RE: Patches for Mingw/MSYS

[Peter Ekberg]

Heromyth wrote:

> I use Libtool cvs in Mingw/Msys to test automake cvs(like 
> nobase.test), 
> and am confronted with some problems. This patch can resovle 
> some of them.
> I think there are really some bugs with libtool, for example:
> |    cwrapper="$output_path/$output_name.exe"
> It should be like this:
> |    cwrapper="$output_path/$output_name"

I'm curious, how did you get "*-*-msys*" into $host? I thought MSYS
was autodetected as *-*-mingw* by config.guess. Is that not always
the case?

(But I do believe that MSYS is a better basis for a name for $host
 than MinGW, since I have understood it as MSYS being the
 environment and MinGW the compiler/toolchain. But that's a bit
 late to change IMHO.)

Regarding the suggestion to remove .exe from cwrapper, that can't
be 100% right as $RM $cwrapper on the line following your change
will then not remove the exe-file (as intended?).

Cheers,
Peter