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Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 17:16:42 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: [general] some ideas & request for comments (LONG)
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> 
> Assuming binutils/gcc accept my patches (or at least the maintainers of
> the cygwin ports of those packages), then I vote for option (d).
> 

It seems that the binutils portion of my desired patches were accepted
into the main binutils tree. However, this may or may not affect the
version distributed with cygwin.

Now I'll try to get the [even more minor] patches to gcc accepted. :-)

--Chuck

Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Charles,
> 
> : Tue May 16 2000  Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
> : 
> :         * ld/emultempl/pe.em: enables searching the library
> :       path for "foo.dll" and "libfoo.dll" in response to 
> :       a '-lfoo' link option, in addition to searching
> :       for "libfoo.a". Applies only when -Bdynamic option 
> :       is specified.
> 
> Thank you - I have now applied this patch.
> 
> Cheers
>         Nick