PCRE package for consideration

[Gerrit P. Haase]

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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