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Subject: | Re: ld --auto-import for cygwin and libtool |
Date: | Sun, 22 Jul 2001 23:47:33 +1000 |
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Travis Howell" <kirben AT optushome DOT com DOT au> To: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au> Cc: <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 11:43 PM Subject: Re: ld --auto-import for cygwin and libtool > Maybe they left it out ? I know changelogs aren't always keep up to date. CVS is wonderful for that. It akes it _much_ harder to forget a Changelog item. POint taken however. > Can still find a copy at > http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/cygwin/latest/binutils/binutils-20000 > 722-1.tar.gz if you want to check it out, I'm not sure if it is still > compatible with current Cygwin version though. No thanks! I don't have the time - but if you find that it _is_ supported in that version, you can likely suggest that Chris re-instate what was previously supported. I still don't recall it ever being supported, and I used cygwin across that period - and was looking for such functionality a couple of times in that period. Rob > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au> > > There's nothing in the cygwin binutils changelog about auto-import. > > > > Rob > > > > > Any idea when this might make it into the official Cygwin binutils ? > > > even > > > > as > > > > > a experimental test version.? > > > > > > > > I wouldn't ask Chris to post an experimental binutils. Binutils is > just > > > too > > > > fraught with danger, unless "we" are very confident there will be no > > > issues. > > > > > > > > > I'm sure many cygwin porters would find this very very useful, > instead > > > of > > > > > having to use ugly hacks. Especially since an earlier Cygin binutils > > > > version > > > > > used to support it > > > > > > > > I don't believe that this has _ever_ been supported by cygwin. Paul > > > > Sokolovsky created this hack himself. > > > > > > I'm sure binutils-20000722-1 allowed auto importing of symbols and that > > was > > > broken/removed in binutils-20001029-1+. > > > > > > > > > > > > >
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