Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Merging MXE Octave - first steps (was What gets compiled into DLL by libtool (licencing issues))

[John W. Eaton]

On 02/26/2014 05:42 AM, Tony Theodore wrote:
> On 25 Feb 2014, at 23:05, Tony Theodore <address@hidden> wrote:
> > -enable shared builds for existing Octave dependencies
>
> Of course, the first package I look at (blas) has no hints whatsoever about 
> building a shared lib!
>
> I guess this is where the `make-shared-from-static` script comes in. How have 
> you found the approach to work in practice? Is there anything you’d change in 
> retrospect or should we merge it as-is?

The make-shared-from-static script works well enough for me.

If I wanted to do it "right" for those packages that use the
make-shared-from-static script, I would add an automake+libtool build
system.  For some packages like blas and lapack, that would be fairly
easy.  For others it would be much more work.

I would like to improve the build systems of individual packages and
try to get the changes upstream but I haven't had enough time to do it.

jwe