[Gpg4win-devel] Syntax error when linking with some .def files

[Werner Koch]

On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:50, aheinecke at intevation.de said:

> On debian this was not a problem as the old deffile parser from ld (binutils 
> 2.22) apparently accepted that double EXPORTS line. But the ld in ubuntu 13.4 
> (binutils 2.23.2) rejects it as a syntax error. 

Thanks for this comparison.

> I'm not sure what the best fix for this is, should all .def files be changed so 
> that their first line reads EXPORTS or should we try to fix libtool so that it 
> not only parses the first line? (Which seems wrong to me)

Actually we don't update the libtool copy without a reasons.  Thus I
assumed we are safe.  Don't we have a libtools in w32pth and adns?

During our WindowsCE port we had to use our patched version of libtool
and, irrc, I kept that version pretty long before I updated it.  Looking
at libadns.def, the EXPORT line is indeed the very first line.  Empty
and comment lines should be skipped by any parser.  Thus we need to wait
for a libtool fix or revert to an old version.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

-- 
Die Gedanken sind frei.  Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.