Comment.

diff --git a/gnulib-local/ChangeLog b/gnulib-local/ChangeLog
index 5ce26ec4e65ff682ec5c6c251d154a64fdacb78f..5df10bd2f7a32da4d39bfe6d935bd55adbda849b 100644 (file)
--- a/gnulib-local/ChangeLog
+++ b/gnulib-local/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2011-08-12  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+       Comment.
+       * m4/libxml.m4 (gl_LIBXML): Add comment about Cygwin 1.7.
+
 2011-08-04  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
        Update after gnulib changed.

diff --git a/gnulib-local/m4/libxml.m4 b/gnulib-local/m4/libxml.m4
index 97a944f960377a9bbaf243310d58f3c024d67575..571ad8a09cfbbf8ea46ab2afed1928a7eddd285e 100644 (file)
--- a/gnulib-local/m4/libxml.m4
+++ b/gnulib-local/m4/libxml.m4
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl_LIBXML],
       dnl Don't use xml2-config nor pkg-config, since it doesn't work when
       dnl cross-compiling or when the C compiler in use is different from the
       dnl one that built the library.
+      dnl Use a test program that tries to invoke xmlFree. On Cygwin 1.7.x,
+      dnl libxml2 is built in such a way that uses of xmlFree work fine with
+      dnl -Wl,--enable-auto-import but lead to a link error with
+      dnl -Wl,--disable-auto-import.
       AC_LIB_LINKFLAGS_BODY([xml2])
       LIBS="$gl_save_LIBS $LIBXML2 $LIBICONV"
       AC_TRY_LINK([[#include <libxml/xmlversion.h>