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On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:09:51PM -0000, Aaron Gray wrote:
>I have some Linux code that uses ld and ld finds '.a' archive files
>when given a -L path.  Cygwin's ld is not seeing these files and I have
>to specifically list them with -l.
>
>Anyone shine some light on this ?  Do I have to use '.la' ?  Or what ?

We can't shed light on this without details.  Please provide some
specific examples.

cgf

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