RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 22

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> But that has nothing to do with the cyg prefix. The name of
> the dll itself is in fact not worth to discuss. The problem
> is in using _any_ other libz library besides the libz which
> is provided by the Cygwin base distro. Moving it to latest
> wouldn't be a problem but I don't think that matters.
> 
> What really matters are the problems which are raised by
> providing another version of libz.a or libz.dll.a (note
> the suffix) which load another {lib|cyg|red|foo}z.dll.

That I agree.  When you start putting the commonly used DLLs (libraries)
in /usr/lib, we will consider linking against it.
As far as previous post from Joerg about libz.dll being used by
MSDOS:  In fact if you compile libz with Microsoft or
Borland compilers, it creates z.dll and z.lib (not libz.dll and libz.a).

Suhaib

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