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Re: All clear [was Re: [1.7]: For the love of god, don't update!]
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 08:08:33PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>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.
I think I had the same thought while resisting the whole concept of
speclib.
Maybe I should have resisted harder.
cgf
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