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Re: libcygwin.a as a symbolic link to lib{c,m}.a -- need insight


On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 05:21:10AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.EDU> wrote:
>> I vote for linking both libc.a and libm.a to libcygwin.a. In the future,
>> we should probably use -lc in gcc config files as well, but that's not
>> something we need to think about right now.
>
>Hmm.  In the past if libcygwin.a was listed multiple times in the library link
>list it caused problems.  Is this still true?  If it is then isn't symlinking
>the libraries going to cause the same kind of problems?  I foresee more
>problems with symlinks than with dummy place holder files.

I've never heard of a problem where linking libcygwin.a (or any library file)
multiple times caused problems.  If this did cause problems I'd think that Mumit
would have raised this issue.

-chris

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