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DLL naming conventions


Hello cygwin,

  Existance of several GNU targets based on incompatible underlying
libraries brings (or will bring soon) problem of clashes between their
components. Mere installing software build with each of them into
separate directory and setting PATH to one of the in per-session
manner is not flexible since often one piece of software absent in
that or another distribution. Of particular importance here is
clashing of DLLs which is espicially hard to detect for end users. It
would be nice if there were some convention for naming DLLs build for
particular target. Cygwin did that for a some time, for example,
native builds of Tcl/Tk, etc. used to have 'cyg' prefix. However,
latest additions seem not to follow this practise.

  Will it be possible to re-consider this matter and if it applies,
recommend to follow it? More importantly, it can be automatically
supported on appropriate level (in libtool).

--
Paul Sokolovsky, IT Specialist
http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=11135



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