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From:	Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date:	Mon, 23 Aug 1999 10:22:23 -0400
To:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Cc:	cygwin developers <cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject:	Re: libcygwin.a as a symbolic link to lib{c,m}.a -- need insight
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In-Reply-To:	<19990823122111.13323.rocketmail@web107.yahoomail.com>; from Earnie Boyd on Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 05:21:10AM -0700

On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 05:21:10AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT EDU> wrote:
>> I vote for linking both libc.a and libm.a to libcygwin.a. In the future,
>> we should probably use -lc in gcc config files as well, but that's not
>> something we need to think about right now.
>
>Hmm.  In the past if libcygwin.a was listed multiple times in the library link
>list it caused problems.  Is this still true?  If it is then isn't symlinking
>the libraries going to cause the same kind of problems?  I foresee more
>problems with symlinks than with dummy place holder files.

I've never heard of a problem where linking libcygwin.a (or any library file)
multiple times caused problems.  If this did cause problems I'd think that Mumit
would have raised this issue.

-chris

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