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Re: PCRE package for consideration
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>
- To: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <ronald at landheer dot com>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 21:29:01 +0200
- Subject: Re: PCRE package for consideration
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304281624510.20894-100000@localhost.localdomain>
- Reply-to: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>
Hallo Ronald,
Am Montag, 28. April 2003 um 16:27 schriebst du:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Gareth Pearce wrote:
>>>> [1] = relibtoolizing et.al. with the included reconf-cygwin.sh
>>>> shellscript
>>> The Cygwin/Windows part doesn't use Libtool for a reason: DLLs don't get
>>> created properly with the current libtool (as you have apparently found
>>> out in another mail).
>> I'm confused, wasnt the point of libtool 1.5 being that dll's Did finally
>> work with cygwin?
> AFAIK, yes, but as Gerrit found out, when linking pcreposix, the DLL gets
> linked to the installed cygpcre.dll. Libtool does, therefore, make a DLL,
> but not a correct one.
Hmmm, I *guess* this problem is because the Makefile.in is
handcrafted, I encountered similar problems with expat which also
doesn't use Automake for generating the Makefile.in. So there are
probably just the right flags missing.
> I probably should have inserted "the" just before "DLLs" to make the
> sentence a bit less general, though..
Gerrit
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