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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:42:42 -0400
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Subject: Re: DLL naming conventions
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In-Reply-To: <20000831194146.867.qmail@web120.yahoomail.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:41:46PM -0700

On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:41:46PM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
>> 
>> That means that the (so far hypothetical) DLL problems should be
>> solvable by keeping the DLLs in the same directory as the executables.
>> 
>
>Great news!  So my earlier suggestion stands to good effect.  Unofficial Cygwin
>packages should install in --prefix=/usr/local/packages.x.x.x.  Official Cygwin
>packages should install in --prefix=/usr.  No need to prefix, suffix or munge
>the names.
>
>Done,

(Chris and Earnie shake hands and go about their business...)

(Other people not quite so satisified...)

cgf

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