Re: gnulib and automake

[Benjamin Lindner]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> Ah, but Windows doesn't have symbolic links and $(LN_S) is just cp, so
> I guess this fails.  

Windows has a kind of "symbolic links", but only with absolute paths,
not with relative paths. But I'm not sure if they are supported in msys.
So you can't do what you can do with links on unix filesystems

> OK, I think what we need to do is
>
>   cd DLD-FUNCTIONS && $(LN_S) .libs/foo.dll foo.oct
>
> so that it will work correctly with either cp or "ln -s".  I've made a
> change that should do this correctly now.  The updated versinon of my
> patch is now on http://jweaton.org/automake-diffs.gz. This version of
> the patch includes all the other changes I made on Friday.

Works fine,
make now completes beyond building all dld-functions.
It's stuck building the doumentation, but I expected that.
I need to translate my local patches and get shared libstdc++ working
with libtool to get octave finally up and running

thanks so far
benjamin