Re: FYI: duplicate removal patch [Was Re: ok, new libtool for cygwinupdates]

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr  3, 2001, "Gary V. Vaughan" <address@hidden> wrote:

> people to complain about the fix, I am beginning to think that we
> should deliberately ship 1.4 with the bug reintroduced.  We can then
> fix it properly in the next release.  Pragmaticallym, the half
> cocked fix in place right now seems to be more trouble than it is
> worth.  Comments?

Hmm...  This thought is very appealing to me.  It is even a reasonable
compromise, because there's an easy work-around for those who really
need to get the same library linked in multiple times: -Wl,-lfoo.  How
about just recommending this work-around in the manual and being done
with it, at least for 1.4?

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