* ltmain.in: Revert to stripping .exe on all platforms.

* TODO: Note about this problem.  Demo is fixed on win32.  -Wl and
-Wc are implemented for release 1.4.  Support `empty' convenience
libraries.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b39b479dac1088576726a5a2d47d2955c2051701..9f12fbb545254d6448a1d5adb6b194517d7d4e5b 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 1999-05-25  Alexandre Oliva  <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
 
+       * ltmain.in: Revert to stripping .exe on all platforms.
+       * TODO: Note about this problem.  Demo is fixed on win32.  Support
+       `empty' convenience libraries.
+
        * ltconfig.in (solaris*, ld_shlibs): Do not enable shared
        libraries with GNU ld 2.8.*, it's broken.  Emit a warning
        suggesting an upgrade.

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 729350c40d7990954d3bd821088d7cb42c667974..4d1085dba09022a3f90121dd77af1af118eccbcd 100644 (file)
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -45,8 +45,10 @@ In the future:
   the pseudo-library and later dlopening them when a program is linked
   against such a library.
 
-* Fix */demo on win32.
-This may simply require resolving the item below.
+* Arrange that EXEEXT suffixes are stripped from wrapper script names
+only when needed, and that a timestamp file or a wrapper program is
+created with the EXEEXT suffix, so that `make' doesn't build it every
+time.
 
 * Figure out how to use data items in dlls with win32.
 The difficult part is compiling each object which will be linked with an
@@ -77,9 +79,8 @@ People who need it:
   Jean Daniel Fekete <Jean-Daniel.Fekete@emn.fr>
   Thomas Hiller <hiller@tu-harburg.d400.de>
 
-* Another form of convenience library, suggested by Alexandre Oliva,
-is to have undocumented utility libraries, where only the shared
-version is installed.
+* Another form of convenience library is to have undocumented utility
+libraries, where only the shared version is installed.
 
 * We could use libtool object convenience libraries that resolve
 symbols to be included in a libtool archive.  This would require some
@@ -88,9 +89,11 @@ sort of -whole-archive option, as well.
 * Currently, convenience libraries (.al) are built from .lo objects,
 except when --disable-shared.  When we can build both shared and
 static libraries, we should probably create a .al out of .lo objects
-and also a .a out of .o objects.  The .al would only be used to
-create shared libraries, whereas the .a would be used for creating
-static libraries and programs.
+and also a .a out of .o objects.  The .al would only be used to create
+shared libraries, whereas the .a would be used for creating static
+libraries and programs.  We could also explicitly support `empty'
+convenience libraries, that behave as macros that expand to a set of
+-Rs, -Ls and -ls switches.
 
 * We should include tests with convenience libraries and reloadable
 objects in the testsuite.

diff --git a/ltmain.in b/ltmain.in
index bb53950d525c2a02f9e74b08fbad8d0f17b9adfa..60c9a81c1c15557f8226da467a2328dfdaf9d672 100644 (file)
--- a/ltmain.in
+++ b/ltmain.in
@@ -3262,14 +3262,10 @@ static const void *lt_preloaded_setup() {
 
       # Only actually do things if our run command is non-null.
       if test -z "$run"; then
-       case "$host" in
-       *-*-cygwin* | *-*-mingw* | *-*-os2*)
-         # win32 will think the script is a binary if it has
-         # a .exe suffix, so we strip it off here.
-         case $output in
-           *.exe) output=`echo $output|sed 's,.exe$,,'` ;;
-         esac
-         ;;
+       # win32 will think the script is a binary if it has
+       # a .exe suffix, so we strip it off here.
+       case $output in
+         *.exe) output=`echo $output|sed 's,.exe$,,'` ;;
        esac
        $rm $output
        trap "$rm $output; exit 1" 1 2 15