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Date:	Tue, 11 May 1999 16:19:36 -0700
From:	Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>
To:	Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Cc:	cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject:	Re: -lc == -lcygwin in the next release?
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In-Reply-To:	<19990511181107.A6957@cygnus.com>; from Chris Faylor on Tue, May 11, 1999 at 06:11:07PM -0400

On Tue, May 11, 1999, Chris Faylor wrote:
>
> Does anyone mind if I get rid of libcygwin.a in the next release
> and just call it libc.a?  Then when it is copied to /whatever/lib
> it will work correctly when it is used on a command line.

This sounds like a pretty good idea, although would it cause confusion
in that libcygwin.a is more than just the contents of libc.a?  (libm.a
for example might still cause confusion).

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Geoffrey Noer		Email: noer AT cygnus DOT com
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