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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:03:24 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: libuser32.a left out of latest Cygwin distro?
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In-Reply-To: <3A800005.1996.417E11C@localhost>; from soren@wonderstorm.com on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 01:45:41PM -0500

On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 01:45:41PM -0500, soren AT wonderstorm DOT com wrote:
>On 6 Feb 2001, at 8:32, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
>> soren AT wonderstorm DOT com wrote:
>> 
>> > Hello Cygwin maintainers,
>> >
>> > Did libuser32.a inadvetantly get omitted from the very latest Cygwin
>> > distro [Win32API or whatever part?] (I just updated using
>> > "setup.exe"  this pm, and re-ran a build that formerly had no such
>> > dependency troubles; and got a failure from ld.exe that it could not
>> > find "-luser32". I confirmed by searching that libuser32.a wasn't
>> > present).
>> 
>> What is the output of `gcc -v'?  The library now lives in
>> /usr/lib/w32api/ and the specs have been modified to find it there. 
>> If you've upgraded the w32api without upgrading gcc then you're likely
>> to run into this problem.
>
>A canny guess. Well, my gcc is
>Reading specs from /bin/../lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.2-7/specs
>gcc version 2.95.2-7 19991024 (cygwin experimental)
>
>I had unexplainable errors twice, partway thru downloading 
>packages using the `setup.exe' system, and I tried finally to ONLY 
>update a couple of things. That might well be how it happened -- I 
>might have skipped gcc but ordered w32api to go thru.
>
>.. shoot! The gcc I just updated using setup placed libuser32.a 
>back in /usr/lib! I used the franken.de ftp server bec the US server 
>was unresponsive. What the heck is going on ... musical libs ...
> Now gcc -v sez:
>Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.2-6/specs
>gcc version 2.95.2-6 19991024 (cygwin experimental)

Actually I have never moved the w32api libs to their own directory,
so this is correct.  The w32api header files *are* in their own
directory, however.

You have downloaded an older gcc, though, as you've surmised.

cgf

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