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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:08:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
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Subject: Re: BUG gcc-mingw 20040810-1 library search path
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On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:27:30PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Max Bowsher wrote:
> >>Reini Urban wrote:
> >>>Igor Pechtchanski schrieb:
> >>>>FWIW, I don't know what (if anything) has changed...  I've used "gcc
> >>>>-mno-cygwin" recently with no problems.  What exactly needs to be done
> >>>>to reproduce the problem?  Igor
> >>>
> >>>for me this fails: install efsprogs and compile a mingw project which
> >>>uses -luuid
> >>>
> >>>this installs /usr/lib/libuuid.a, which has nothing to do with
> >>>/usr/lib/w32api/libuuid.a and the library search path favours the
> >>>efsprogs lib of course.  no mount problem.
> >>
> >>Now we get the the bottom of the problem!
> >>
> >>It's nothing to do with the gcc-mingw package at all.  Instead, it is
> >>an e2fsprogs packaging problem.
> >>
> >>Someone want to re-report in a new thread, with an appropriate subject?
> >>e.g.  "e2fsprogs installs libuuid.a, hides w32api/libuuid.a"
> >
> >Reini's already done this:
> ><http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg01251.html>.  Now we're just
> >re-hashing the issue, in the grand traditions of this list.  ;-)
>
> I'm sorry.  I wasn't paying attention.  Wasn't I supposed to say
> something mean by now?  I hate to break with tradition.
>  cgf

Well, traditionally, you waited until the *third* iteration to step in,
and this is technically still in its second iteration... :-)
	Igor
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