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Re: PCRE package for consideration
- From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <ronald at landheer dot com>
- To: Gareth Pearce <tilps at hotmail dot com>
- Cc: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>, <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:27:17 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: PCRE package for consideration
On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Gareth Pearce wrote:
>>> [1] = relibtoolizing et.al. with the included reconf-cygwin.sh
>>> shellscript
>> The Cygwin/Windows part doesn't use Libtool for a reason: DLLs don't get
>> created properly with the current libtool (as you have apparently found
>> out in another mail).
> I'm confused, wasnt the point of libtool 1.5 being that dll's Did finally
> work with cygwin?
AFAIK, yes, but as Gerrit found out, when linking pcreposix, the DLL gets
linked to the installed cygpcre.dll. Libtool does, therefore, make a DLL,
but not a correct one.
I probably should have inserted "the" just before "DLLs" to make the
sentence a bit less general, though..
rlc