MSYS build lnkscript file path problem

[rsbivand]

Second on MSYS/MinGW building GDAL - up to and including 1.4.4, my installation of MSYS (1.0.10) just worked with ./configure, as suggested on:

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/BuildingWithMinGW

But 1.5.0 does not build without editing libtool at line 6114 to sed out the MSYS-anchored absolute path and replace it by a relative path (or possibly a Windows drive-based absolute path. Once the lnkscript only has relative path names, make runs to completion, and the resulting binaries, used with the R bindings in the rgdal package, check through without error.

Fix is to change line 5657 in ./ltmain.sh (or the correct line in the file it originates from) from:

$ECHO "$obj" >> $output

to

$ECHO "$obj" | ${SED} -e 's/^{.*gdal-[0-9].[0-9].[0-9]/\./' >> $output}

(checked on MSYS and Linux RHEL4). Probably there is a better way of getting the build directory name - I am building in the source tree rather than outside.

[Jukka Rahkonen]

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/BuildingWithMinGW mentions, as describer above, the need to edit "libtool at line 6114 to sed out the MSYS-anchored absolute path and replace it by a relative path". Perhaps that is enough as a fix for this 6 years old ticket?

[Jukka Rahkonen]

Waited 8 months for feedback, closing now.