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Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 05:19:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Shared vs Static [WAS: Re: [general] some ideas & request for  comments (LONG)]
To: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
Cc: Michael Ring <m DOT ring AT ndh DOT net>, cygwin-apps AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> wrote:
-8<-
> 
> NOTE: Are you suggesting, Earnie, that binutils be further hacked to
> search for the following in the '-Bdynamic' case:
> 
> 'libfoo.dll' 'libfoo.dll.a' (and 'foo.dll' and 'foo.dll.a' for
> consistency), and THEN as an absolutely last fallback, 'libfoo.a'
> 
> In '-Bstatic', you'd only look for 'libfoo.a' of course.
> 

No, but it's not a bad idea.  Also, the path for the search for the .dll files
could be modified to search in more logical places such as /bin, /usr/bin,
/usr/local/bin and the windows system directory so that the symlinks wouldn't
be needed.

Cheers,

=====
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   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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