Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3E87DB17.90606@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 01:07:19 -0500 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gerrit P. Haase" CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: gdbm, libgdbm3, libgdbm-devel 1.8.3-1 References: <3E852558 DOT 70002 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> <39348797744 DOT 20030330154757 AT familiehaase DOT de> <3E8740C6 DOT 9090502 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> <24369713049 DOT 20030330213633 AT familiehaase DOT de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >>But I still have to say >> gcc -o chuck.exe ...... -lgdbm_compat -lgdbm >>right? wrong? > > > IMO: wrong. > If there is just the runtime dependency as it seems to be in perl, > then there is no need to link against libgdbm. You are correct. As it happens, I was messing around with this today -- only direct dependencies need to be included on the link line. > No libtool needed for perl. I changed the hints/cygwin.pl entries > since the symbols needed were not available in libgdbm.dll.a: Ah. Well, thanks for giving it a shot. Now, back to your regularly scheduled libgdbm-based (not libgdbm3-based) build of perl. --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/