Re: [PATCH] Enable the use of "link -lib" as the wrapped archiver.

2010-08-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Peter, * Peter Rosin wrote on Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 06:03:03PM CEST: > From 8c406f64b66aedee8359ddf1383e087faa2ba233 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Peter Rosin > Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:01:18 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] Enable the use of "link -lib" as the wrapped archiver. > > * lib/ar-lib:

Re: New auxiliary archive script

2010-08-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Peter Rosin wrote on Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 01:05:09PM CEST: > Den 2010-08-12 05:29 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: > > * Peter Rosin wrote on Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 04:12:10PM CEST: > Oh... oh! That means that AM_PROG_CC_WRAPPER and AM_PROG_CC_C_O should > trigger 'compile' for completely different reasons,

[PATCH] Improve support for non-default autotools in rebuild rules.

2010-08-12 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hello automakers. I recently started to use non-default autoconf and autom4te when working with the Automake source tree. JFTR, this is due to the fact that the Automake's configure and acloca.m4 files (which are commited to git) are now generated with latest autoconf (2.67), while my system has

Re: [PATCH] Enable the use of "link -lib" as the wrapped archiver.

2010-08-12 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-08-12 16:30 skrev Peter Rosin: > Hi! > > lib.exe is simply a wrapper around "link.exe -lib", this patch > allows the latter form to also be wrapped by ar-lib. > > While at it, the patch also allows some other options through > to the wrapped archiver. I have quoted some of the output fro

[PATCH] Enable the use of "link -lib" as the wrapped archiver.

2010-08-12 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi! lib.exe is simply a wrapper around "link.exe -lib", this patch allows the latter form to also be wrapped by ar-lib. While at it, the patch also allows some other options through to the wrapped archiver. I have quoted some of the output from "lib -?" below for your convenience (remember that '

[INFO] push + merge

2010-08-12 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Merged maint to branch-1.11 and master (JFTR, there were a couple of minor spurious conflicts in this last merge, easily solved). Here is a synthesis of the commits applied to maint (generated by `git format-patch --cover-letter ...'): Stefano Lattarini (17): Minor improvements to tests ar*.tes

Re: New auxiliary archive script

2010-08-12 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2010-08-12 05:29 skrev Ralf Wildenhues: > * Peter Rosin wrote on Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 04:12:10PM CEST: >> One thing to consider is that the compile script is triggered "by chance" >> for MSVC. It is just a lucky coincidence that MSVC doesn't support -c -o, >> so that the compile script can add