The gnulib manual mentions this macro, which seems to be obsolete. As
libtool's documentation covers the replacement (win32-dll), along with
remarks about passing -no-undefined, I suggest removing this section from
the gnulib manual.
Good point. I prefer to keep this section, though, because it's an unexpected
behaviour of libtool that it contains support for all platforms out-of-the-box,
except for native Windows, where it has to be extra requested.
2017-02-09 Bruno Haible <***@clisp.org>
doc: Don't mention obsolete AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL macro.
* doc/gnulib.texi (Libtool and Windows): Recommend
LT_INIT([win32-dll]) instead of AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL.
Reported by Reuben Thomas <***@sc3d.org>.
diff --git a/doc/gnulib.texi b/doc/gnulib.texi
index 1b012a6..ddbac2f 100644
--- a/doc/gnulib.texi
+++ b/doc/gnulib.texi
@@ -1023,10 +1023,11 @@ available.
@section Libtool and Windows
If you want it to be possible to cross-compile your program to MinGW
-and you use Libtool, you need to put:
+and you use Libtool, you need to use the @code{win32-dll} option of
+@code{LT_INIT}. In other words, put:
@example
-AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL
+LT_INIT([win32-dll])
@end example
in your @file{configure.ac}. This sets the correct names for the