Re: [PATCH, take 4][cygwin|mingw] Control where win32 DLLs get installed.

[Roumen Petrov]

Dave Korn wrote:
>   So, here I hope is the final respin.  Built and tested on i686-pc-cygwin and
> i686-pc-linux-gnu with no regressions and all new tests passing (see below sig
> separator for details).
>
> libtool/ChangeLog:
>
>         * Makefile.am (TESTSUITE_AT): Add bindir.at.
>         * libltdl/config/general.m4sh (func_normal_abspath): New function.
>         (func_relative_path): Likewise.
>         * libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh (func_mode_link): Accept new -bindir
>         option and use it, if supplied, to place Windows DLLs.
>         * tests/bindir.at: New file for DLL install tests.
>         * doc/libtool.texi (Link Mode): Update documentation.
>
>   Unless I've missed anything?

I think that processing of '..' in a path is too naive. It will fail to 
produce correct results on filesystems with links.

>     cheers,
>       DaveK

Roumen