# for the debian BTS, hopefully this doesn't cause problems for the GNU BTS)
clone 814951 -1
reassign -1 libtool
retitle -1 libtool fails to detect DLL .def file
forwarded -1 https://debbugs.gnu.org/13414
tags -1 = patch upstream
thanks

Over on https://bugs.debian.org/814951, Werner Koch and i are discussing
how https://debbugs.gnu.org/13414 is still a problem with libtool.  In
particular, GNU libtool can't seem to detect that a .def file is valid
unless EXPORT is the literal first line in the file (it chokes when
blank lines or comments precede EXPORT).

Werner supplied the patch below to fix libtool.  The upstream bug
appears to have a rather different set of patches.  Either way, the
problem should be cleaned up in libtool, as it's causing a series of
workarounds for cross-building things on debian for the Windows
platform.

Is there some reason for the delay upstream besides lack of time to work
on it?  Should debian go ahead and apply one of the proposed patches
downstream in the meantime?

    --dkg