Re: XFree 4.2.1 + fontconfig-2

[Alan Hourihane <alanh at fairlite dot demon dot co dot uk>]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 03:39:50PM +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> 
> > > But I don't know if this is either valid for imake or if it will
> > > break anything. And when you do a shared and a static version, the
> > > static version will most likely be name libName.dll.a too. 
> > 
> > Well that doesn't make any sense because on linux it builds shared
> > libraries with "so" and static libs with ".a". 
> 
> The original LibraryTargetName from imake.rules could be overwritten
> in cygwin.rules. So all these changes apply to cygwin only. 
> 
> > Also, the way it
> > builds it makes it possible in my mind.  I make puts shared objects
> > in $BUILDDIR/ and static into $BUILDDIR/unshared/.  It shouldn't be
> > too hard to insert the logic necessary to handle archiving the
> > contents properly. 
> 
> building libraries and programs which depend on another library have
> a "progFoo: xc/exports/lib/libFoo.a" as rule. Replacing LibraryTarget-
> Name with the Shared/Static switch from my posting will replace this
> either by 
> progFoo: xc/exports/lib/libFoo.a 
> or 
> progFoo: xc/exports/lib/libFoo.dll.a
> depending on SharedLibraryFoo set to NO or YES
> 
> Hm, actually this is correct and what we want.  
> 
> > Also, ld can automatically generate shared import
> > libraries during linking of the dll, so that might be a possible
> > route to look at.
> 
> This is already done cygwin.rules
> 
> > > This was not the system install but only the global install in the
> > > build
> > > tree. 
> > > 
> > 
> > I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you mean here...
> 
> running make on the xc tree will _symlink_ (and partly copy) the targets
> to xc/export/lib and xc/export/bin. Make install later will _copy_ it 
> to the installdir. 

When you've come to a decision on the patch, post a new one so I
can take a look and then commit it.

Alan.