386PE ld/strip - Import Library stripping, issues during auto import & specific imports

[Ivan Warren]

> My apologies for taking so long to get back to you on this issue.  I
> have been away on vacation for the last few weeks and then clearing my
> email queue after I got back took rather a long time...
>
Hmm Nick ?

Thanks for all.. The fact is, this issue was (hopefully) fixed by the
patch I proposed later on, which you DID *promptly* apply to binutils/ld
(sometime last week).

This message (the one you replied to) predates the patch.. So is it
possible you read your queue backwards ? (I do that all the time).

There is still another oddity though (but I am not sure how to solve that
really) It comes from a conflict between ld global symbol merging and the
Windows platform DLL import mechanism.

I'll try to give you a test case ASAP. Maybe you'll come up with a bright
idea on how to deal with this case.

--Ivan