Re: [Mingw-users] Libtool, --disable-static --enable-shared, make check

[Earnie <ea...@us...>]

Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 11/7/2011 10:20 AM, Earnie wrote:
>> I've been communicating with a project about MinGW and testing their SVN
>> trunk.  We've run into an issue where the "make check" used the DLL
>> existing in mingw/bin rather than the src/.libs directory.  I'm looking
>> for methods currently in use that avoid this issue.  I've not found
>> anything with Google so if someone has pointers to examples it would be
>> helpful both to me and the internet search engines.
> 
> 1) link the executable using libtool.  This will do two things:
>    a) place the "real" executable in <appsrc>/.libs/
>    b) put a "wrapper executable" in <appsrc>.
> 

So we have src/.libs where the DLL lives and we have tests/.libs where
the test executables live.

> 2) ensure that 'make check' is invoking the wrapper executable, and not
> sneaking around in the .libs/ directory.
> 

So what should be passed to libtool so that tests get ../src/.libs
included in PATH at execution?  Hmm... looking at the ltshwrapper in
tests/.libs I see in func_exec_program() that it does set PATH to
../src/.libs.  I'll check the Makefile again to see what's going on.

Thanks,
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Earnie