-lc == -lcygwin in the next release?

Geoffrey Noer noer@cygnus.com
Tue May 11 16:19:00 GMT 1999


On Tue, May 11, 1999, Chris Faylor wrote:
>
> Does anyone mind if I get rid of libcygwin.a in the next release
> and just call it libc.a?  Then when it is copied to /whatever/lib
> it will work correctly when it is used on a command line.

This sounds like a pretty good idea, although would it cause confusion
in that libcygwin.a is more than just the contents of libc.a?  (libm.a
for example might still cause confusion).

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Geoffrey Noer		Email: noer@cygnus.com
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