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Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 12:19:39 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
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To: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: [Bug] Perl ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid fails to recognize the .dll.a extension
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Max wrote:

> ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid fails to recognize the .dll.a extension, leading to
> incorrect omission of link arguments when building perl extension modules.



> Would the Cygwin perl maintainer be prepared to fix this in the next release
> of perl for Cygwin? Thanks.


It is already fixed in the latest perl sources (5.8.3 or later & 5.9.0)
and it should also be sufficient to update the MakeMaker module.

Gerrit
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