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Re: [ITP-2] glib-2.4.2-1


Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

No and yes, and IIRC, the script doesn't work because the libtool-devel
creates a dummy executable, so if there are glib-genmarshal and
glib-genmarshal.exe in the same directory, glib-genmarshal.exe will be
executed at first and since it is a dummy it fails.

Actually, libtool works thus, in most cases: the "real" but not-yet-installed executable is in <build>/.libs/ <build>/.libs/lt-foo.exe (?)

there is a wrapper script sets env vars (like LD_LIBRARY_PATH on unix, or PATH on windows) so that the "real" executable will use the correct shared libs. It is in <build>/.
<build>/foo


to avoid the "libtool always relinks everything" problem on windows/mingw/cygwin, libtool creates a dummy executable in the <build> dir which simply launches the wrapper script, when in turn launches the real exe. (It's obviously theoretically possible to combine the wrapper exe and the wrapper script into a single wrapper(.exe?) -- but for technical reasons it's difficult to do so and not break other platforms)
<build>/foo.exe


I patched it to call the real executable.

But then, your PATH is not set correctly, so the "real" executable will load the installed versions of its DLLs -- which may not be what you want.


Now, this whole scheme obviously causes problems when you want to parse the binary for symbols, in order to build a dynamic symbol lookup/dispatch table -- like genmarshal. It's a problem even for libtool's own ltdl library on cygwin. Gary Vaughan sez that the "new" version of m4 will make this a lot easier to handle by simpifying the stuff in libtool.m4, so we'll see. OTOH, Gary's creating something of a chicken/egg problem, as the new m4 itself needs working ltdl support...

--
Chuck


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