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Re: The Return of Revenge of Son of the Speclib Strikes Back :)
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:31:37 -0400
- Subject: Re: The Return of Revenge of Son of the Speclib Strikes Back :)
- References: <49E9DB61.2040506@gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 02:53:37PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>[ Let's try again in the right place, shall we? ]
Now more tempest with even less teapot!
>The new speclibs libraries work great, but there's one piece of
>unanticipated fallout: the libtool func_win32_libid() tests can no
>longer identify them as import libraries. Which is fair enough, since
>they aren't, they are now indirect references to import libraries; but
>we want it to treat them the same anyway.
I can guess why that is, but it would be nice if you didn't jump right
to a solution and provided more details.
>As usual, I don't speak perl good,
So, please don't bother sending perl patches. I can get enough out of
the description of what is wrong and what your possible solution might
be to figure out what needs to be done without seeing your
proof-of-concept.
I checked something in which adds a dummy object custom-tailored to the
each library.
Thanks for the report.
cgf