binutils-20000625 and --enable-auto-image-base

Charles Wilson cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Tue Jul 4 20:52:00 GMT 2000


Chris Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 10:43:59PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> >Chris Faylor wrote:


> >The workaround, of course, is to fix the dlltool command so that the
> >import lib is called 'libperl5_6_0.dll.a'. We can deal with these issues
> >in the cygwin community, but I don't think it's a good idea to
> >inconvenience the rest of the pei386 folks with these most recent
> >changes just yet.
> 
> Is there any reason why 'ld' can't import data from the DLL?  

I don't know. DJ?

> Wouldn't
> that fix this problem?

Uhhhmmmmm..I thiiiink so..but someone who knows the answer to the first
question can answer the second question more definitively than I can.
*-P

<obvious>
If the answer to #1 is 'no' and the answer to #2 is 'yes', and a patch
to enable this functionality is developed, then my reservations about
adding the .dll.a stuff to the main binutils cvs repository are no
longer a concern. Go for it.
</obvious>

--Chuck

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