[ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 22
Corinna Vinschen
cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Thu May 3 05:31:00 GMT 2001
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:15:40AM -0400, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
>
> > But that has nothing to do with the cyg prefix. The name of
> > the dll itself is in fact not worth to discuss. The problem
> > is in using _any_ other libz library besides the libz which
> > is provided by the Cygwin base distro. Moving it to latest
> > wouldn't be a problem but I don't think that matters.
> >
> > What really matters are the problems which are raised by
> > providing another version of libz.a or libz.dll.a (note
> > the suffix) which load another {lib|cyg|red|foo}z.dll.
>
> That I agree. When you start putting the commonly used DLLs (libraries)
> in /usr/lib, we will consider linking against it.
I don't understand. Regardless of being released under latest or
contrib, the libs are in /lib and the dll's in /bin. Moving the
release to latest is just an administrative act.
Corinna
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