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To: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: ld --auto-import for cygwin and libtool
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 23:28:26 +1000
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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
> > 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+.