FYI: duplicate removal patch [Was Re: ok, new libtool for cygwin updates]

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Friday 30 March 2001  4:07 am, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Mar 29, 2001, "Gary V. Vaughan" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Friday 30 March 2001  2:23 am, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> >> Not really.  We really must fix the bug that causes us to remove
> >> duplicate libraries before releasing 1.4.
> >
> > Huh?  Seems like I'm missing something here.  What is this bug exactly?
>
> There is this chunk of code that removes duplicate `-l' flags that
> appear in a link command.  The order of `-l' flags is relevant; we
> tell whether it's safe to remove -l flags from the beginning or from
> the end without looking into all other libraries.  So we shouldn't do
> it.

I have applied the following to HEAD (and similar to MLB).

Okay to release 1.3d?

Cheers,
        Gary.
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2001-03-31-gvv-duplicate-deplibs.patch
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