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Re: RFC: Cygwin 64 bit?
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 05:41:25PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 18:22 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> Doesn't that presuppose that every package maintainer would have to
>> modify their build scripts? You can't just make this the default for ld
>> since not everyone who builds a program necessarily wants to put their
>> dll in .../lib64.
>
>Modifying cygport(1), cygport(5)s, and other build scripts in some
>fashion is inevitable for any of these solutions. The only way to avoid
>that would be to not support multilib in any form. Since it seems I've
>been outvoted on *that* point, the only question is finding which method
>of multilib support which is the least painful.
I had two points squashed into that paragraph. I get that cygport has
to be modified. What I wouldn't like to see is ld being changed to
force every -lrary refererence to default to ../lib64/cygrary.dll .
cgf