Re: msvs support

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* D. Walsh wrote on Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 01:13:39PM CET:
> 
> On Feb 12, 2006, at 05:17 , Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> 
> >[ moving from the libtool list ]
> 
> As a test, I tried this patch on Mac OSX, sorry to say it wasn't a  
> happy camper.

Could you be more specific?  For example, posting the resulting errors
would be great.

> I have to agree, some of the proposed manipulations are done too late  
> in the game and should be done in the deplib search.
> 
> One concern (with Apple switching to Intel processors) is dual  
> architecture binaries and cross-compilations problems are going to  
> occur if proper care isn't taken to take into account which CPU is  
> used/available and if the environment is set to generate universal  
> binaries.

Erm, what does this have to do with the proposed MSVC patch at all?
I can easily see that Libtool will need to be adjusted to take this
into account for OSX/x86 support, but I don't really see the connection
to w32 issues.  They are pretty orthogonal.

Cheers,
Ralf