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Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 13:02:26 +0100
From: "Gary V. Vaughan" <gvv AT techie DOT com>
To: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Subject: Re: DLL naming conventions
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In-Reply-To: <20000903123018.A22158@cygnus.com>; from cgf@cygnus.com on Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 12:30:18PM -0400
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On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 12:30:18PM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 01:27:12PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> >
> ><rant>
> >Why not just statically link all of our applications?  Then we
> >wouldn't have any problems with wrong dlls being loaded at all!
> ></rant>
> 
> Are you ranting at me?  Don't bother.

No offence was intended.  I was mostly ranting on the capacity of
Microsoft to remove all the advantages of a system (shared libraries)
but still retain all the loops you have to jump through to use them.

> My major concern was naming every cygwin DLL "cygsomething.dll".  I
> really don't like that idea, especially since it will mean work for
> people at Red Hat to accomodate.

Chuck has talked sense into me here... I no longer think that this
buys us anything.

> I did see the AppPath registry key being mentioned.  I'm not sure how
> libtool could make use of that since that is something that is set on
> installation of a package.  libtool may be out of the picture at that
> point unless you're doing 'make install'.

Bummer =(O|  Does that mean binary packages would need to run a
post-install script to set the AppPath correctly then?  If it was a
boiler plate script, perhaps libtool could generate it if it notices
that the `make install' is moving things to a staging area (for
packaging) as opposed to moving things directly to the live
directories...

> This could be a solution for cygwin but I don't know if it addresses the
> problem of other packages or not.

Paul has shown willing to provide suitable patches for his system, and
I use only cygwin myself.  If I can improve the build system on just
cygwin I will be more than happy.

Cheers,
	Gary.
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