Re: libtool and Mingw DLLs - bindir/libdir solution - requesting comments

[Bob Friesenhahn]

This sounds like a good plan to me.

Bob

On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Max Bowsher wrote:

> I've thought of a way to reliably get bindir from a Makefile.
> In libtool.m4, the command line to invoke libtool is defined - we can
> add --bindir="$(bindir)" to it, so that libtool knows explictly what the
> bindir is, even when overridden at 'make install' time.
>
> Any comments welcome,
>
> Max.
>
>
> The background on why this is necessary:
>
> Windows shared libraries are in 2 parts, the DLL (which should go in bindir)
> and the import library (which should go in libdir). Without the above
> workaround, libtool has no way of knowing where bindir is whilst installing
> a shared library.
>
>
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