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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 19:15:29 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cygwin AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm>
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To: "Gerrit @ cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: libtool bug
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Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> Hallo Jan,
> 
> Am Freitag, 8. Oktober 2004 um 09:16 schriebst du:
> 
> 
>>Charles Wilson writes:
> 
> 
>>>What was my objection back then?  I'm sure someone objected, because
>>>otherwise it would have gone in; and I'm sure it was me, because
>>>nobody else cares about the libtool internals. :-)
> 
> 
>>What is relinking supposed to achieve?
> 
> 
> IMO, useless waste of CPU time, nothing else (well, I'm sure there are
> some bordercases where it actually needed, but if so, introduce a flag
> to force relinking during installation).

Not entirely true.  With your change (or one very similar), all of the 
*-exec.tests in the libtool test suite failed.  These tests attempt to 
run the uninstalled executable.  I'm not sure why; it's probably a side 
effect of the change, not just "relinking" itself.  Investigating...

--
Chuck


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