Re: [Mingw-users] libtool, dlls and -lm

[Keith MARSHALL]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> While you're already considering adding tools to improve libtool
> support, may I kindly point to
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=13069136 which
> has not been addressed yet, as far as I can see.  It would help us
> very much to convince to change the GCS, and it would enable a
> complexity reduction (and thus quite some speedup, esp. on mingw in
> some cases) for 'libtool --mode=link' with a large number of objects.

Hi Ralf,

If I interpret that correctly, you are specifically asking for `join'
and `paste', from GNU coreutils; you would also like `fold' and `split',
but we provide then already, so I guess you are just suggesting that
they be mandated by GCS.

Sure, we could consider distributing these, but don't hold your breath
waiting.  I tried to build a Win32 native GNU coreutils with MinGW quite
recently, and the `make' failed miserably.  Unless some kind soul provides
a mingwPORT, and/or feeds the necessary patches back into the coreutils
project, these are unlikely to be available any time soon.  For now,
you could try the GnuWin32 port -- I don't know how effective that
might be.

It is possible that better success could be achieved by building MSYS
special implementations.  In the past, I believe, that Earnie has been
the principal, if not sole, maintainer of such releases; at present he
is unable to devote time to this task.  Since I do all my development
work on GNU/Linux, cross-compiling for Win32 using i586-mingw32-gcc, I
am not equipped to host the special compiler environment required to
create MSYS special components, so I can't pursue this option myself;
anyone else like to take up the challenge?

Regards,
Keith.

P.S. Please forward this to `libtool-patches' at your discretion; my
previous post was bounced, awaiting moderator approval, and I have no
desire to subscribe personally to that list.
available.


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