bug#17635: Messages

[Peter Rosin]

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On 2014-05-31 00:30, address@hidden wrote:
> Il 30.05.2014 08:25 Peter Rosin ha scritto:
> 
>> I think it might be worthwhile to check if the problem vanishes if
>> you use MSYS make (just run make.exe) instead of MinGW make. My
>> personal rule is to stay with MSYS tools for as long as possible
>> (and switch to MinGW tools as late as possible).
>>
>> I believe the underlying problem here is the different quoting
>> requirements for different processes.
> 
> It was indeed the case: when using MSYS make instead of mingw32-make, that 
> did not happen and the build succeeded.

Glad to hear it!

> Incidentally, I found another problem. Recent versions of MinGW seem more 
> eager than old ones to add a dependency on the DLL version of libgcc when 
> building DLLs. In order to prevent that, I tried adding -static-libgcc to 
> LDFLAGS, but, when libtool calls gcc, nothing's left of it. I had to use a 
> workaround suggested in https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-02/msg00231.html (a 
> message dating back from 2009), that is configuring your entire package with 
> CC='gcc -static-libgcc'. Is there a bug filed for that already?

It's an FAQ...

http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/libtool.html#FAQ

Cheers,
Peter