[dvipdfmx] [PATCH] mingw: Don't copy libtool wrappers

Karl Berry karl at freefriends.org
Mon Nov 1 22:11:56 CET 2021


    dvipdfmx changes it's behavior depending on the program name
    it was called, e.g., it behaves as extractbb when "xdvipdfmx.exe"
    is called through the wrapper "extractbb.exe".

Right, thanks. I know. As do lots of other programs: cjkutils,
omegafonts, dvipng/dvigif, etc.

Ah. omegafonts is done in just the same way as dvipdfmx, with
call_omfonts instead of call_xdvipdfmx. (The others are done
differently.) I suppose peb ending up implementing both those cases.

Anyway, I guess anyone using the Automake Makefile.am etc. also has
Libtool, so there's no problem applying the proposed libtool install
patch.  (And I guess I should apply it in omegafonts, too.)

That is, the generic w32 build doesn't have libtool (as far as I know),
but also doesn't use the Makefile.am, so ... all works out. Akira, any
other Windows builders, does it seem problematic to you? --thanks, karl.



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