Re: [PATCH] cygwin/mingw: binary wrapper fails when invoked via $PATH

[Bob Friesenhahn]

Charles,

These changes to ltmain.in seem pretty complex.  For Windows isn't it
easier and more reliable to use the GetModuleFileName() function?
This allows using a single line of code:

  GetModuleFileName(0,path,PATHLENGTH);

to obtain the full path to the binary wrapper.

Bob

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Charles Wilson wrote:

> On cygwin/mingw, libtool creates an binary wrapper which invokes the
> shell-script wrapper (which sets up the environment and invokes the real
> binary).
>
> However, to locate the shell script, the binary wrapper prepends
> getcwd() to argv[0].  This works fine if the binary wrapper is invoked
> directly via a relative path -- but not if one sets $PATH and then
> invokes the wrapper via path lookup.
>
> This problem cropped up in gettext-0.12.1's test suite.
>
> Anyway, here's a patch that corrects the problem, and causes no
> testsuite regressions on cygwin.
>
> --
> Chuck
>

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