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Suhaib Siddiqi ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
Thu May 3 12:51:00 GMT 2001


> >That I agree.  When you start putting the commonly used DLLs 
> (libraries)
> >in /usr/lib, we will consider linking against it.
> >As far as previous post from Joerg about libz.dll being used by
> >MSDOS:  In fact if you compile libz with Microsoft or
> >Borland compilers, it creates z.dll and z.lib (not libz.dll 
> and libz.a).
> 
> If you use libz.dll.a to link your application it will find 
> /usr/lib/cygz.dll .
> This is standard behavior.
> 
> I'm Cc'ing Chuck Wilson since he is the maintainer of this package.
> 
> It makes no sense to have two different versions of the library
> distributed with two packages that have the name "cygwin" attached to
> them.


I agree, there is no reason to to have two different versions.... was 
cyz.dll not forked last year, while libz was alrady around for 
Cygwin as part of X11R6.3 then X11R6.4, and later as XFree86 3.3.6.

regardless....

Suhaib

> 
> cgf
> 



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