Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 11:18:03 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-rcm AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: getopt: ugly linker messages
Message-ID: <20030919151803.GE17232@redhat.com>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <200309181953 DOT h8IJrMWa017255 AT bolt DOT sonic DOT net> <20030918195607 DOT GA11311 AT redhat DOT com> <3F6A7C70 DOT 7030901 AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm> <20030919064843 DOT GM9981 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <3F6B0965 DOT 3050304 AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <3F6B0965.3050304@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i

On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 09:49:25AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
>>Since that auto-import is working fine for a long while now and since
>>this sort of auto-import is normal for any other platform... isn't there
>>a time we can get rid of that message?
>
>auto-import is not the default for all pei386 versions of binutils, 
>particularly mingw.
>
>And auto-import is in no way "normal".  It provides functionality that, 
>on the surface, appears to emulate the normal behavior of other 
>platforms -- but under the hood, it's a bizzarre beast.
>
>So, taking those two points into consideration, I'm not sure what the 
>right thing to do is, without ticking somebody on some platform off. 
>The current compromise seems to be mostly acceptable.
>
>Perhaps a cygwin-special (e.g. doesn't go back to binutils CVS) patch? 
>In that case, it's a one-liner -- just change the default value of 
>link_info.pei386_auto_import to '1' instead of '-1' in pe.em (you might 
>also need to change the default in ldmain.c, but I don't think that's 
>necessary.)

I'm willing to do this but I have the same reservations that I think
you're expressing above, Chuck.  Also, the auto-import of data variables
is slower than a normal dllimport so I don't feel real comfortable about
making this the default.

I don't feel really strongly about this however, so if the consensus is
that this should be turned on, I'll make a cygwin-specific change to
binutils.

cgf

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/