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Subject:	RE: rebasing new packages?!
Date:	Fri, 3 May 2002 14:00:33 +1000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danny Smith [mailto:danny_r_smith_2001 AT yahoo DOT co DOT nz] 
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 12:58 PM
 
> Umm, wouldn't the mingwlibs-for-mingw do.

Probably. 
All it needs is 
a) A maintainer.
b) libstdc++.a and libgcc.a. I found those in mingw-gcc.
 
> If your just talking about STL in the strict sense, you shouldn't need
> libstdc++.a.  The templated STL lives in the headers. That's 
> the virtue of
> templated classes.  Char specializations for [Non-]Standard 
> iostreams and
> string classes live in libstdc++.a but they are not templated pre-3.0

Agreed - but we are talking pre-3 :}.

Rob

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