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Re: Observation for ALL maintainers who provide dlls (was Re: question for perl maintainer)
- From: "James R. Phillips" <antiskid56-cygwin at yahoo dot com>
- To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit at familiehaase dot de>, cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 08:59:29 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Observation for ALL maintainers who provide dlls (was Re: question for perl maintainer)
- Reply-to: antiskid56-cygwin at yahoo dot com
--- "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >
> >
> > Isn't it a configure option? You can change the "conf()" function to pass
> > it in. For linker options, set MY_LDFLAGS in the beginning of the script.
> > Igor
>
> Doesn't libtool always defines --image-base when building a DLL, or is
> this only with ancient libtool versions?
>
> Gerrit
Don't know about libtool, but modifying the conf function did no good for
compiling octave. The only way I can see to pass this flag to octave is to
modify the configure script. I have suggested to upstream a modification to
configure.in