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On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 06:29:43PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Wouldn't it help if libc.a, libm.a etc. wouldn't export any symbols at
>all?  I mean, eventually there's libcygwin.a linked in which satisfies
>all of the requested symbols.  What would break if the secondary libs
>pointing to cygwin1.dll would be stubs?

We rehashed all of this years ago.  IIRC, some configuration scripts
actually look for symbols explicitly in the libraries.

cgf

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