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RE: getopt: ugly linker messages
- From: "Ivan Warren" <ivan at vmfacility dot fr>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 01:43:54 +0200
- Subject: RE: getopt: ugly linker messages
>
> Sigh. By "research", I meant dive into the binutils code and
> figure out what is going wrong.
Geez.. You kidding me ? I mean, I wouldn't mind doing that.. But it would
probably take me a month or so to just figure out the basics of how it
works... Not to mention I have but very little understanding of how the 386
PE works (just enough to figure out there might be a problem with it when I
see one..). I really thought it'd be smarter to ask folks who are more
comfortable with it. (ps : I already did it for some gcc issues.. And it
took me ages just to figure out the architecture.. I'm pretty sure it'd be
the same with binutils)..
If I had made all that searching, spent a lot of time sorting out a
"binutils in 386 PE" environment issue, then I'm not spending time on the
project I usually work on.. And if I had found the issue & had a patch, I
definitelly wouldn't have asked a question. I would have proposed a patch.
>
> >Hopefully, I'll get a better response from the binutils
> folks who may
> >find a solution to an issue that DOES affect cygwin (and any other
> >environment using the PE 386 object format).
>
> You already posted to the binutils mailing list, remember?
Yeah.. Of course I do remember that.. (not senile yet ;-) ).. But
unfortunatelly, I made the same mistake I did here : I told them I *DID*
post in the other forum. Thus leading to the effect that each list thinks
it's a problem that is in the other group field of expertise.
So my option is now to tell the binutils folks that the cygwin folks are
declaring this issue to be a binutils core issue and that it has nothing to
do with cygwin (although it does affect it).. Am I correct ?
--Ivan
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