Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/02/14/20:31:40
At 10:10 PM 2/14/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Thanks, i searched and found NO lib named in that way, exept for one
>that was called libstdcxx.a ... i renamed it to libstdcx.a and now it seems
>to work ... well ... at least i hope so... or was that libstdcxx.a
>something complete different, that i had better not touched ???
That's the right library. It must have had an SFN like libstd~1.a instead
of libstdcx.a. Windows shouldn't by default use the damn ~1's unless
there's an SFN name clash. Instead to make it get this behavior you need to
muck with the registry and change a key that isn't documented by Microsoft,
and then it has the bug that sometimes if you have a file with an LFN and a
particular SFN, and then you go to create a new file with a name that's the
first file's SFN, it will go to overwrite instead of give the new file an
LFN of the name you chose and an SFN with the ~1 ending like it should.
If you unzip the JDK from Sun for example, a foobarbz_small.gif extracts,
then a foobarbz.gif extracts and overwrites the first instead of coming out
with the SFN foobar~1.gif... and this happens several times.
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