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Re: Will libm.a always be a symlink? (or snapshot vs. release)


Chris,

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 12:07:31PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:10:00AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
> >IIRC, Cygwin binutils had been fixed to tolerate (i.e., ignore)
> >superfluous -lc and -lm options.  If so, then it seems that this only
> >works when libm.a and libc.a are symlinks.
> 
> Since libm.a, libc.a, and libcygwin.a are all different files, DJ's
> changes don't apply here.  The safest thing to do is to reimplement the
> symbolic links yourself.

Thanks for the above -- this is exactly the information that I desired.

Jason

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