Re: Cygwin List O' Issues...

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Charles Wilson wrote:
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> 1. C++ (actually, all tags except C) is broken.  This is because the
> non-C tags extract the list of runtime stdlibs from the compiler, and
> then explicitly add them to the link command (while using -nostdlibs).
> This has the effect of requiring that the runtime libs satisfy the "is
> it dynamic?" check in $file_magic_cmd.

You missed mentioning one major bug related to C++.  Although libtool
warns that it can't create a shared library due to depending on a
static library, libtool proceeds to try to build a shared library
anyway.  This is the worst of the bugs since it results in total
failure.

Bob
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