Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 10:54:34 -0500 Message-Id: <199903241554.KAA21789@envy.delorie.com> From: DJ Delorie To: michael@weiser.saale-net.de CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com In-reply-to: <36fcbbe2.2163881@mail.weiser.saale-net.de> (michael@weiser.saale-net.de) Subject: Re: [ANN] GMP 2.0.2 binaries for cygwin/mingw References: <199903231629.KAA11455@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu> <36fcbbe2.2163881@mail.weiser.saale-net.de> > BTW: Why is libiberty called libiberty It's a play on words, sort of. In Unix, library "foo" has file "libfoo.a" and uses "-lfoo" to link, so with libiberty, you end up typing "-liberty" on your command lines all the time. The idea was to liberate the programmer from the deficiencies of the OS-supplied library by fixing or supplying whatever the OS lacked, like strdup, which isn't available in Ultrix, and memcmp, which isn't available in SunOS. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com