Re: RFA: libtool.m4

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Kai,

* Kai Tietz wrote on Fri, May 15, 2009 at 09:46:49AM CEST:
> 2009/5/1 Charles Wilson:
> > Cross-compilation environments involving windows variants (mingw32,
> > 64bit mingw, cygwin, etc) and libtool are a little flaky at the moment.
> > I've had a number of patches to address (some of) this but they've been
> > unreviewed for almost six months.  If we can get the ball rolling on
> > that, they *should* be easy to extend to 64bit mingw by someone with
> > access to a w64 system.

> as JonY said, we have x64 windows machines and we are willing to test
> your patches. Could you provide to us a link to your patches, so we
> could verify for you. We can back post then the result of the test to
> this ML or to you directly.

> Ralf, is this a way for you?

Surely feedback is helpful.

I'm not sure whether it's clear to y'all here, but quite a big part of
the concerns over the code in the pr-msvc-support branch is not just
about regressions for other w32-related systems, but also for completely
w32 unrelated systems.  Admittedly I don't remember whether that was the
case for the patches Charles mentioned.

Cheers,
Ralf