RE: Two snapshot bugs

["Fifer, Eric" <EFifer at sanwaint dot com>]

>Chris Faylor wrote:
>>On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 01:50:37PM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
wrote:
>>At 01:08 PM 10/10/2000, Fifer, Eric wrote:
>>>+ Restructuring of libm.a, libc.a and libcygwin.a:
>>>   Should be mentioned in the changes list?
>>>   Also, __infinity seems to be multiply-defined:
>>>         /usr/lib/libcygwin.a(ds00023.o)(.text+0x0): multiple definition
of
>>>`__infinity'
>>>         /usr/lib/libm.a(s_infconst.o)(.text+0x0): first defined here
>>>   Or I might be doing something wrong.  I'm still struggling
>>>   to get Perl to compile.
>>
>>libm.a and libc.a are symlinks to libcygwin.a.  Right now, gcc doesn't 
>>understand this so your best bet is to use only one of these in your 
>>link stream.  If you don't, the resulting executable will crash. 
>
>Also, this is unchanged since 1.1.4, AFAIK.

Really?  This is what I see in the latest snapshot.

$ bunzip2 -c cygwin-inst-20001010.tar.bz2 | tar vtf - | egrep
'lib(c|g|m|cygwin)\.a'
-rw-r--r-- dj/games     246456 2000-10-11 05:35 usr/lib/libg.a
-rw-r--r-- dj/games     215962 2000-10-11 05:36 usr/lib/libm.a
-rw-r--r-- dj/games          0 2000-10-11 05:35 usr/lib/libc.a link to
usr/lib/libg.a
-rw-r--r-- dj/games     762638 2000-10-11 05:35 usr/lib/libcygwin.a

$ ar t /lib/libm.a
e_acos.o
e_acosh.o
e_asin.o
e_atan2.o
e_atanh.o
...

$ ar t /lib/libc.a
__adjust.o
__exp10.o
__ten_mu.o
_tolower.o
_toupper.o
abort.o
abs.o
asctime.o
...

$ ar t /lib/libcygwin.a
dt.o
dh.o
ds01095.o
ds01094.o
ds01093.o
ds01092.o


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