Re: MinGW & library_names

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Bob,

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> 
>> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>>>
>>> Which file/line should I look at in order to expediently implement a
>>> solution to only pass the .a file to the correct loader?
>>
>>
>> Does this help any?
> 
> 
> I am not yet in a position to verify if this patch helps, but if it is
> correct in principle, is there agreement from maintainers that this
> patch should be applied?

No, that patch feels wrong to me.

It is just hair to make happen what should be happening already.  If applying
the patch does fix some failures on MinGW, then we need to find out why the
loader fetching loop is not returning the preopen loader first for you, and
fix *that*.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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