Re: cygwin-1.7: linking difference

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Dec  6 07:15, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> Hi All,
> following the Corinna request I tried to test the 
> building of my packages on cygwin-1.7 and I found this
> slight difference when linking
> 
> on cygwin 1.5 "-lcruft.dll" is accepted as form 
> to link versus cygcruft.dll
> 
> while on 1.7 the outcome is:
> 
> /bin/ld: cannot find -lcruft.dll
> 
> of course if I modified the form "in -lcruft"
> than everything is fine.
> 
> Is it a intentional change ?

I don't think this has to do with Cygwin 1.5 vs 1.7.  This looks like
a change in gcc4 vs gcc3 or in binutils.


Corinna

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