Re: Libtool stresstest.at segfault on Cygwin/MinGW

[Noah Misch]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 10:36:34PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> names.  With `join', this issue could easily be fixed, but it's not
> available on mingw (and not in the list of allowed tools).  :-/

Given that MSYS is ``a Minimal SYStem, with which a configure script could be
executed,''[1] its tool omissions need not constrain autotools implementation
choices.  If Libtool can gain from using `join', it should do so and notify the
MSYS developers, who would add `join' if they wish to support running configure
scripts from subsequent Libtool releases.

I do not know if other systems have omitted `join', but V7 did have it, so it is
probably quite portable.  I suggest patching GCS and then using `join' (with -a
-e -o -t options only, probably) freely.

[1] http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml