Re: Possible bug with 3.81?

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:

> > Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:33:16 -0400
> > From: "Chris Sutcliffe" <address@hidden>
> >
> > With previous versions of make the first rule was used to produce
> > libraries that have both def and object files:
> >
> > dlltool --as=as -k --output-lib libshell32.a --def
> > ../../../w32api/lib/shell32.def
> > ar r libshell32.a shell32.o
> > ranlib libshell32.a
> >
> > whereas with version 3.81 it just runs the dlltool command as a result
> > the symbols and functions exported from the object file are not
> > included in the import library.
> >
> > Has this behaviour changed in version 3.81?
>
> I'm not aware of any changes in this are, but I may be wrong.  Can you
> post a short self-contained Makefile that reproduces this behavior
> without requiring to install the w32api sources?
>
> Btw, are you using the same versions of Binutils (dlltool, ar and
> ranlib) with both versions of Make?  If not, perhaps the invoked
> programs cause this somehow.

And let us know which build you're using.  Does it contain the patches 
found in the archives of this list?  Is it native, Cygwin, or MSYS 
dependent runtimes?  If native are you using it within the Cygwin or 
MSYS shells?


Earnie Boyd
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