Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <41671F91.8020508@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 19:15:29 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 MultiZilla/1.6.4.0b MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gerrit @ cygwin" Subject: Re: libtool bug References: <16741.49587.333388.685699@byrd.xs4all.nl> <1968842951.20041008015659@familiehaase.de> <41662639.3030306@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <87d5zt4r3g.fsf@peder.flower> <657467259.20041008123554@familiehaase.de> In-Reply-To: <657467259.20041008123554@familiehaase.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Hallo Jan, > > Am Freitag, 8. Oktober 2004 um 09:16 schriebst du: > > >>Charles Wilson writes: > > >>>What was my objection back then? I'm sure someone objected, because >>>otherwise it would have gone in; and I'm sure it was me, because >>>nobody else cares about the libtool internals. :-) > > >>What is relinking supposed to achieve? > > > IMO, useless waste of CPU time, nothing else (well, I'm sure there are > some bordercases where it actually needed, but if so, introduce a flag > to force relinking during installation). Not entirely true. With your change (or one very similar), all of the *-exec.tests in the libtool test suite failed. These tests attempt to run the uninstalled executable. I'm not sure why; it's probably a side effect of the change, not just "relinking" itself. Investigating... -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/