<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.26.0"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 05:23 -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> From: Yaakov Selkowitz <<A HREF="mailto:yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net">yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net</A>> Using LN_S is required for portability; on MinGW, this is "cp -p". The install-exec-hook in src/Makefile.am must remain !PLATFORM_WIN32, as Windows cannot resolve DLL runtime dependencies from symlinks. Signed-off-by: Yaakov Selkowitz <<A HREF="mailto:yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net">yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net</A>> --- Makefile.am | 4 +--- configure.ac | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index 412aefc..5eed6e3 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -31,10 +31,8 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \ old-doc/Changelog \ old-doc/CHANGES -if !PLATFORM_WIN32 install-exec-hook: - cd $(DESTDIR)$(libdir) && rm -f libXaw.@LIBEXT@ && ln -s $(DEFAULT_LIB) libXaw.@LIBEXT@ -endif + cd $(DESTDIR)$(libdir) && rm -f libXaw.@LIBEXT@ && $(LN_S) $(DEFAULT_LIB) libXaw.@LIBEXT@ .PHONY: ChangeLog INSTALL diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 84f21d4..47f2215 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ platform_darwin=no LIBEXT=so case $host_os in cygwin*|mingw*) + LIBEXT=dll.a platform_win32=yes ;      darwin*) </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Acked-by: <TT>Gaetan Nadon <<A HREF="mailto:memsize@videotron.ca">memsize@videotron.ca</A>></TT> It would be preferable to do the LN_S change in a separate patch as it distract from the core changes. Is the library extension renaming part of the exec-hook? Why does it have to change? I had a hard time understand the creative explanation "must remain !PLATFORM_WIN32". Perhaps something like "must be done on all platforms including WIN32". These nits are magnified as I am not familiar with the platform. One more thing, which isn't related to your path, does the "clean" and "uninstall" target work correctly, given the work done in the exec hook? Gaetan </BODY> </HTML>