BUG gcc-mingw 20040810-1 library search path

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:27:30PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Max Bowsher wrote:
>>Reini Urban wrote:
>>>Igor Pechtchanski schrieb:
>>>>FWIW, I don't know what (if anything) has changed...  I've used "gcc
>>>>-mno-cygwin" recently with no problems.  What exactly needs to be done
>>>>to reproduce the problem?  Igor
>>>
>>>for me this fails: install efsprogs and compile a mingw project which
>>>uses -luuid
>>>
>>>this installs /usr/lib/libuuid.a, which has nothing to do with
>>>/usr/lib/w32api/libuuid.a and the library search path favours the
>>>efsprogs lib of course.  no mount problem.
>>
>>Now we get the the bottom of the problem!
>>
>>It's nothing to do with the gcc-mingw package at all.  Instead, it is
>>an e2fsprogs packaging problem.
>>
>>Someone want to re-report in a new thread, with an appropriate subject?
>>e.g.  "e2fsprogs installs libuuid.a, hides w32api/libuuid.a"
>
>Reini's already done this:
><http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg01251.html>.  Now we're just
>re-hashing the issue, in the grand traditions of this list.  ;-)

I'm sorry.  I wasn't paying attention.  Wasn't I supposed to say
something mean by now?  I hate to break with tradition.

cgf

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