libtoolize and glib-1.2.10 [Was: [ITP] libungif-4.1.0-1]

[Charles Wilson]

Nicholas Wourms wrote:

> 
> A) FWICT, he isn't running autoheader/automake/autoconf, which means 
> configure is not being regenrated.


Yes, I pointed that out in another message.

> 
> B)He could try adding AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL right before AM_PROG_LIBTOOL 
> in configure.in, which should tell configure that building dlls is "OK". 
> However, I will note that the end result is "undefined symbol 
> Win@Main16" %50 of the time.


This symbol is deprecated in the -devel- versions of libtool.


> 
> C)Can you help him by referring him to the best documentation for the 
> whole process?  I would try, but I learned mostly from trial and error. 
> (A howto for cygwin really should be written...).


I know, I know -- I've been promising to rewrite that section for a 
while.  I'll get to it eventually.

The best "documentation" is probably my dllhelpers package on cygutils.


> D)As I have told you on countless occasions, I use autoupdate to get me 
> started.  I then 'diff -u configure.in~ configure.in' to see what it 
> changed.  After evaluating what it changed, I will then go in and hand 
> edit/revert anything  else.  This method works quite well in that 
> autoupdate 99% of the time does all the busywork for me,  leaving it to 
> me to fix up any special cases or macros.


Yep, that's what I meant.

--Chuck