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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 06:39:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: RE: DLL naming conventions
To: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com>,
        "'Charles Wilson'" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
Cc: Paul Sokolovsky <paul-ml AT is DOT lg DOT ua>, cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
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--- Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 9:16 PM
> > To: Bernard Dautrevaux
> > Cc: Paul Sokolovsky; cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
> > Subject: Re: DLL naming conventions
> > 
> > 
> > <<warning. this message is controversial. please read the entire thing
> > before responding...>>
> 

As Chris already pointed out, the solution to this for Cygwin is:

For any official cygwin/latest or cygwin/contrib package release the:
       package should be configured with --prefix=/usr
       .dll should goto /usr/bin.
       .a   should goto /usr/lib.
       no versioning controls on the names of the libraries.

For any unoffical cygwin package release the:
       package should be configured with --prefix=/usr/local/package-x.x.x.
       .dll should goto /usr/local/package-x.x.x/bin.
       .a should goto /usr/local/package-x.x.x/lib.
       .exe should goto /usr/local/package-x.x.x/bin.
       .info should goto /usr/local/package-x.x.x/doc/info.
       man files should goto /usr/local/package-x.x.x/doc/man.
       html files should goto /usr/local/package-x.x.x/doc/html.
       etc.
       no versioning controls of the names of the libraries unless the
libraries use shared memory regions that may conflict with other libraries of
the same name.

Cheers,

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