Richard Evans wrote:
> 1. configure.in detecting the target system versions of dllwrap,
> dlltool, windres and ar
> 2. in various makefiles, checking BUILDOS not PORTNAME when deciding
> whether to use 'pwd -W' or just 'pwd'
> 3. Using the local system's 'zic' command when cross compiling, adding a
> --with-zic option to configure.in in case zic is not in the path (on my
> fedora 9 system it is in /usr/sbin/zic).
> 4. Some path tweaks in the make files to allow the cross compile build
> to occur outside the the source directory.
> 5. Working round a binutils-2.18 bug in windres when the rc file has /
> or \ in the path
I think part (4) makes plenty of sense just to enable VPATH building. I
guess nobody has tried VPATH on cygwin.
I can't comment on the rest of the changes, but most of them seem to be
reasonable. I think the "pwd" stuff should be done in a makefile
template.
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