Re: All clear [was Re: [1.7]: For the love of god, don't update!]

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 08:08:33PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Apr  6 13:33, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 06:29:43PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >Wouldn't it help if libc.a, libm.a etc. wouldn't export any symbols at
>> >all?  I mean, eventually there's libcygwin.a linked in which satisfies
>> >all of the requested symbols.  What would break if the secondary libs
>> >pointing to cygwin1.dll would be stubs?
>> 
>> We rehashed all of this years ago.  IIRC, some configuration scripts
>> actually look for symbols explicitly in the libraries.
>
>Hmm, too bad.  So it was a naive thought.

I think I had the same thought while resisting the whole concept of
speclib.

Maybe I should have resisted harder.

cgf

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