Re: 2.2.6: -ofoo.exe creates foo

[Akim Demaille]

Le 25 nov. 08 à 10:38, Akim Demaille a écrit :

> > FWIW, current git has some (quite a few, actually) changes related to
> > such cross setups, but I don't think any of those would influence  
> > what
> > you are seeing.
>
> The bootstrap of libtool is real painful.  Studying the verbose  
> output of aclocal it appears it pulls libtool.m4 because of two  
> obsolete macros.  Adding the following stub file to libltdl/m4 cures  
> all my pains.  It is probably worth the trouble to add it.  Or maybe  
> to add it to lt-obsolete.m4.

Well, I have new kinds of failures with current master (still on that  
GNU/Linux + Wine + VC++ machine):

/bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CXX   --mode=link cl.exe /EHsc   -Wall / 
wd4099 /wd4121 /wd4127 /wd4347 /wd4512 /wd4571 /wd4619 /wd4625 / 
wd4626 /wd4668 /wd4710 /wd4711 /wd4800 /wd4820 -g -O3 -no-undefined -L/ 
home/build/local_wine/winroot/opt/lib -o liburbi/liburbi.la -rpath / 
usr/local/gostai/lib libuco/liburbi_liburbi_la-uvalue-common.lo  
liburbi/liburbi_liburbi_la-package-info.lo liburbi/liburbi_liburbi_la- 
uabstractclient.lo liburbi/liburbi_liburbi_la-uclient.lo liburbi/ 
liburbi_liburbi_la-uconversion.lo liburbi/liburbi_liburbi_la- 
umessage.lo liburbi/liburbi_liburbi_la-usyncclient.lo  -lws2_32 ../lib/ 
libport/libport.la ../jpeg-6b/libjpeg.la
libtool: link: cl.exe /EHsc -o liburbi/.libs/liburbi-0.dll   
libuco/.libs/liburbi_liburbi_la-uvalue-common.obj liburbi/.libs/ 
liburbi_liburbi_la-package-info.obj liburbi/.libs/liburbi_liburbi_la- 
uabstractclient.obj liburbi/.libs/liburbi_liburbi_la-uclient.obj  
liburbi/.libs/liburbi_liburbi_la-uconversion.obj liburbi/.libs/ 
liburbi_liburbi_la-umessage.obj liburbi/.libs/liburbi_liburbi_la- 
usyncclient.obj     `printf %s\n " -L/home/build/local_wine/winroot/ 
opt/lib -lws2_32 ../lib/libport/.libs/libport.lib ../jpeg-6b/.libs/ 
libjpeg.lib" | /bin/sed 's/ -lc$//'` -link -dll
cl.exe: start: -lws2_32
cl : Command line warning D9024 : unrecognized source file type '../ 
jpeg-6b/.libs/libjpeg.libn', object file assumed
LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file '../jpeg-6b/.libs/ 
libjpeg.libn'
gmake[4]: *** [liburbi/liburbi.la] Error 2

As you can see, libtool somehow wants to use printf, and fails.

$ /bin/sh -c 'printf %s\n "foo"'
foon%

(The % shows that there is no eol here).

$ /bin/sh -c 'printf "%s\n" "foo"'
foo

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