All clear [was Re: [1.7]: For the love of god, don't update!]

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Apr  6 13:33, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 06:29:43PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Wouldn't it help if libc.a, libm.a etc. wouldn't export any symbols at
> >all?  I mean, eventually there's libcygwin.a linked in which satisfies
> >all of the requested symbols.  What would break if the secondary libs
> >pointing to cygwin1.dll would be stubs?
> 
> We rehashed all of this years ago.  IIRC, some configuration scripts
> actually look for symbols explicitly in the libraries.

Hmm, too bad.  So it was a naive thought.


Corinna

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