Observation for ALL maintainers who provide dlls (was Re: question for perl maintainer)

[James R. Phillips]

--- "Gerrit P. Haase"  wrote:

> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Isn't it a configure option?  You can change the "conf()" function to pass
> > it in.  For linker options, set MY_LDFLAGS in the beginning of the script.
> > 	Igor
> 

> Doesn't libtool always defines --image-base when building a DLL, or is
> this only with ancient libtool versions?
> 
> Gerrit


Don't know about libtool, but modifying the conf function did no good for
compiling octave.  The only way I can see to pass this flag to octave is to
modify the configure script.  I have suggested to upstream a modification to
configure.in