BUG (1.5.19-4): libdl.a is missing

[Daniel Santos <daniel at bytesage dot com>]

cygwin (as in the base cygwin package) is missing /lib/libdl.a.  The 
install for the cygwin package should create a symlink with this name 
that links to libcygwin.a in the same directory.  Otherwise, builds for 
a lot of different software packages are broken.  Example is bash-3.1.  
It will die at this point:

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DSHELL  -I. -I.. -I../include -I../lib -g 
-DCROSS_COMPILING -o mkbuiltins mkbuiltins.o -ldl
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: 
cannot find -ldl
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Create the above symlink and everybody is happy, nobody has to die...

Note:  It was a pain in the ass to figure out how to report and bug.  
Would be nice if there was a bug database or something.  Will be worse 
if I have to subscribe to this list to post to it.

Daniel
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dd if=/dev/zero of=/ram/awsomeswap bs=1024 count=16384
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/bin/sync
/sbin/swapon /ram/awsomeswap


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