[PATCH/RFC] Fix LD test FAIL: weak symbols on Cygwin

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 01:48:00 GMT 2009


On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Aaron W. LaFramboise
<aaron98wiridge9@aaronwl.com> wrote:
> H.J. Lu wrote:
>
>> FWIW, there is always
>>
>> FAIL: weak symbols
>>
>> in ld when configured for i386-cygwin hosted on Linux/ia32. It has been
>> failing
>> ever since it was enabled by
>
> OK, then maybe this is just broken on Cygwin.  I've never worked on Cygwin
> specifically in the toolchain.  All I know is it works or used to work on
> i386-pc-mingw32.  I don't see any good reason these two targets should be
> different, though.

"weak symbols" also failed for i386-pc-mingw32 and it never worked.

> I will have to look into it before commenting further.
>



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H.J.



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