Call for testing Cygwin snapshot (getopt and -liberty don't mix..binutils issue)

[Peter Rehley]

On Dec 16, 2005, at 7:05 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 06:54:48PM -0800, Peter Rehley wrote:
>> I know that the cygwin getopt and libiberty getopt are different, but
>> I was just wondering why there is a liberty directory in the  
>> cygwin src.
>
> Because the cygwin DLL build uses libiberty.  What other reason would
> there be?

The hippos perhaps.

>
>> And finally for now, is there a way to use the cygwin version of
>> getopt and not the libiberty version even if we need to link to
>> libiberty?
>
> -lcygwin

Right, I found this just after I sent the message :P

Thanks,
Peter


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