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On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Rafal Mantiuk wrote:

> I noticed that qt-mt.pc pkg-config file contains -lresolv, but this
> library does not exist in the cygwin distribution.

It does, actually, but you can't find it on the package search page.
That's because it's a symlink to /usr/lib/libminires.dll.a that is created
during the postinstall phase.

The idea of keeping a manifest of files created during postinstall has
been floating around for a while, but <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI>.
	Igor
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