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Subject: Re: ld --auto-import for cygwin and libtool
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 23:47:33 +1000
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Travis Howell" <kirben AT optushome DOT com DOT au>
To: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
Cc: <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: ld --auto-import for cygwin and libtool


> Maybe they left it out ? I know changelogs aren't always keep up to date.

CVS is wonderful for that. It akes it _much_ harder to forget a Changelog
item. POint taken however.

> Can still find a copy at
>
http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/cygwin/latest/binutils/binutils-20000
> 722-1.tar.gz if you want to check it out, I'm not sure if it is still
> compatible with current Cygwin version though.

No thanks! I don't have the time - but if you find that it _is_ supported in
that version, you can likely suggest that Chris re-instate what was
previously supported.

I still don't recall it ever being supported, and I used cygwin across that
period - and was looking for such functionality a couple of times in that
period.

Rob

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
> > There's nothing in the cygwin binutils changelog about auto-import.
> >
> > Rob
> > > > > Any idea when this might make it into the official Cygwin binutils
?
> > > even
> > > > as
> > > > > a experimental test version.?
> > > >
> > > > I wouldn't ask Chris to post an experimental binutils. Binutils is
> just
> > > too
> > > > fraught with danger, unless "we" are very confident there will be no
> > > issues.
> > > >
> > > > > I'm sure many cygwin porters would find this very very useful,
> instead
> > > of
> > > > > having to use ugly hacks. Especially since an earlier Cygin
binutils
> > > > version
> > > > > used to support it
> > > >
> > > > I don't believe that this has _ever_ been supported by cygwin. Paul
> > > > Sokolovsky created this hack himself.
> > >
> > > I'm sure binutils-20000722-1 allowed auto importing of symbols and
that
> > was
> > > broken/removed in binutils-20001029-1+.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>