Re: cygwin dlopening backends

[Charles Wilson]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> Hmm.  We changed the '-Wl,$lib' specifically for MSYS, because we need
> the shell to do the path conversion to w32 paths here.  We could use
> '-Xlinker --enable-auto-image-base' as well, I guess, for consistency,
> but then again all linker flags passed by the user will have '-Wl,'
> prefixed, so that would still be inconsistent.  OTOH, changing all to
> '-Xlinker' uses a tiny bit more command line length, a scarce resource
> on w32.  We could also separate mingw from cygwin setting here..
>
> Shrug.  I don't know.  What do you like best?

Those are all good points.  I thought the '-Xlinker' was some stylistic 
policy we were violating, but it sounds like -Xlinker is itself the 
exception to the -Wl, norm, not the other way around.

I say leave it alone as is.

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Chuck