Re: mingw cross

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> Hehe, Debian sarge has mingw cross-compile packages.  :)
>
> Testing this uncovered a bug: $host_os is tested but not set in libtool.
> Furthermore, a few rather simple fixes to make cross `make check'ing
> bark less.
>
> OK to apply (HEAD and branch-2-0, patch below against HEAD)?

Yes, it does not appear to harm anything.

> Unresolved issues:
>
> Do we need a $LN_S_FOR_INSTALL?  I do not actually know whether there
> are systems which put versioned libs in place as well as the unversioned
> and also do not have symlinks.

If such conditions exist, I expect that we will hear about it.  Might 
was well wait until then.

> We might need to choose between .libs and _libs based on $host_os?
> (Imagine a cross-compile tree which is also samba-exported to win?)
> This would affect some of the tests as well.

Modern Windows does appear to properly support creating .libs 
subdirectories.  I just verified that I could create a .libs 
directory, create a file in that directory, and access the file via a 
path.  Samba might be (optionally) programmed to do some sort of 
remapping for old Windows clients.

The primary requirement is to satisfy the operating system used to do 
the build (rather than the target) since otherwise the build may not 
succeed at all.  This implies that we should respect $host_os when 
making filesystem type choices.

Bob
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