[Gdal-dev] Changes to libtool (or something) break MinGW build

[Andrey Kiselev]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 11:39:32PM +0300, Ari Jolma wrote:
> >>c:\MinGW\bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe: 
> >>cannot find /c/progetti/gdal/gdalMing/frmts/o/.libs/EnvisatFile.o
> 
> this can also be fixed (assuming mingw is on C: drive) in libtool by:
> 
> $ECHO "$obj" | sed -e "s/\/c\//c:\//" >> $output
> 
> the | sed -e "s/\/c\//c:\//" has to be added by hand
> 
> that's line 6114 at least in my libtool, just after "for obj in 
> $save_libobjs"
> 
> But the basic problem is probably a recent change somewhere which
> causes libtool to use full paths for _some_ of the object files that
> it writes into .libs/libgdal.la.lnkscript.

I have reproduced this problem and I think it is mingw issue. It can be
fixed with the following patch, but I don't want to check it in, I would
like to dig into this problem more.

--- GNUmakefile	(revision 11369)
+++ GNUmakefile	(working copy)
@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@
 
 include GDALmake.opt
 
-GDAL_OBJ	=	$(GDAL_ROOT)/frmts/o/*.o \
-			$(GDAL_ROOT)/gcore/*.o \
-			$(GDAL_ROOT)/port/*.o \
-			$(GDAL_ROOT)/alg/*.o
+GDAL_OBJ	=	./frmts/o/*.o \
+			./gcore/*.o \
+			./port/*.o \
+			./alg/*.o
 
 ifeq ($(OGR_ENABLED),yes)
-GDAL_OBJ += $(GDAL_ROOT)/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/o/*.o
+GDAL_OBJ += ./ogr/ogrsf_frmts/o/*.o
 endif
 
 include ./ogr/file.lst


Best regards,
Andrey

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Andrey V. Kiselev
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