Re: Latest 64 bit test stuff on sourceware

[Andy Koppe <andy dot koppe at gmail dot com>]

On 22 February 2013 07:04, Yaakov wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:30:27 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Feb 21 12:56, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> > On 21 February 2013 10:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> > >> Is there a better approach for dealing with that, other than requiring
>> > >> the library directory to be passed into the makefile?
>> > >
>> > > Where is the non w32api libuuid.a coming from?  I don't have such a
>> > > file.
>> >
>> > On Cygwin proper it comes from the libuuid-devel package. Previously I
>> > got around this by explicitly linking in /usr/lib/w32api/libuuid.a,
>> > but obviously that's no good for cross-compiling. I'd like to address
>> > this "properly" rather than rely on lib/libuuid.a not appearing in
>> > cross build setups.
>>
>> What about `$(CC) -print-file-name=w32api/libuuid.a'?
>
> This is the most reliable solution.

Thanks very much, that's working nicely. Interestingly,
-print-file-name=w32api works too.

Andy