Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: michael@weiser.saale-net.de (Michael Weiser) To: DJ Delorie Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: [ANN] GMP 2.0.2 binaries for cygwin/mingw Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 10:38:50 GMT Message-ID: <36fa120e.2615150@mail.weiser.saale-net.de> References: <199903231629.KAA11455@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu> <36fcbbe2.2163881@mail.weiser.saale-net.de> <199903241554.KAA21789@envy.delorie.com> In-Reply-To: <199903241554.KAA21789@envy.delorie.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id KAA05607 Hello DJ, you wrote: >> BTW: Why is libiberty called libiberty >It's a play on words, sort of. In Unix, library "foo" has file >"libfoo.a" and uses "-lfoo" to link, so with libiberty, you end up >typing "-liberty" on your command lines all the time. The idea was to >liberate the programmer from the deficiencies of the OS-supplied >library by fixing or supplying whatever the OS lacked, like strdup, >which isn't available in Ultrix, and memcmp, which isn't available in >SunOS. Thanks a lot for that explanation. I already thought of something like that while typing -liberty. :) -- bye, Michael -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com