[Libreoffice] ExternalLib.mk rpath gotchas

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 10/04/2011 12:13 PM, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 11:49 +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
>> On 10/03/2011 12:45 PM, Caolán McNamara wrote:
>>> A better solution might be to put a stock "libtool" into our tree, patch
>>> it to smuggle the correct gb_LinkTarget__RPATHS entry into the link
>>> line, and then always copy our patched libtool over preexisting libtools
>>> when we unpack "external" tarballs in our build ?
>>
>> Sounds good to me.
>
> It might all be a bit moot really. We build on windows with msvc, and
> configure doesn't know about msvc's command line options, nor does
> libtool, so a good bit more work would be required to e.g. teach
> autotools about msvc and regenerate configure tool chain with said
> modified autotools, and/or use one of the cccl derivatives to wrap msvc
> with a script to translate gcc-alike arguments into msvc equivalents.

But maybe it would already be a win if we kept builds of external 
modules special cased for Windows/MSVC, but would use a generic 
configure/make approach for all other platforms?

-Stephan