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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 19:27:24 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-rcm AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: getopt: ugly linker messages
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On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 10:51:43PM +0200, Ivan Warren wrote:
>>Bingo.  Apparently, no one knows the answer to your question and,
>>apparently, no one is interested in researching the problem for you.
>>Also, as you noted, it has a trivially easy workaround -- don't strip
>>import libraries.
>
>Right..
>
>- No one is interrested in researching the problem for me..  Now..
>WAITAMINUTE ! I spent the entire week trying to find how I could
>document this the best I could so that the entire community may benefit
>from it.  Because I am no ld/strip/binutils wiz doesn't mean I don't
>make any research in the problems I run into.

Sigh.  By "research", I meant dive into the binutils code and figure out
what is going wrong.

>Hopefully, I'll get a better response from the binutils folks who may
>find a solution to an issue that DOES affect cygwin (and any other
>environment using the PE 386 object format).

You already posted to the binutils mailing list, remember?

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2003-09/msg00296.html

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