Re: pr-msvc-support merge

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Peter,

* Peter Rosin wrote on Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 08:08:08AM CEST:
> +2010-06-23  Peter Rosin  <address@hidden>
> +
> +       Wrap some MSVC options in the compile script.
> +       * lib/compile: MSVC supports naming the output file, the option
> +       is just not called -o, so transform -o into the appropriate form
> +       for MSVC. Also wrap some other options while at it (-L, -l, -Wl,
> +       -Xlinker and -I) and convert file names to windows form where
> +       needed for those options to make MSVC more usable in an
> +       autotooled environment.
> +       * doc/automake.texi (Auxiliary Programs): Document the above
> +       extension of the compile script.
> +       * NEWS: Updated.
> +       * tests/defs.in: New required entry 'cl'.
> +       * tests/compile3.test: New test.
> +       * tests/compile4.test: New test.
> +       * tests/compile5.test: New test.
> +       * tests/Makefile.am: Update.

Now that assignment has gone through a couple of weeks ago, I went ahead
and committed your version 7 of this patch into a new 'msvc' branch off
of maint and merged that into master.  I intend to merge also into
branch-1.11/maint before the 1.11.2 release, since it is ugly to have
released versions with incompatible auxiliary scripts that are also
distributed elsewhere like in gnulib.

I've squashed in a few really minor changes (bumping scriptversion to
today, using AC_CONFIG_FILES instead of AC_OUTPUT(FILE) and fixing the
mode of the created file rather than its input, to avoid a test failure
on GNU/Linux etc).

Will push as soon as the testsuite has finished.

Thanks again,
Ralf