Re: RFA: cygwin-specific patch for collect2 and cygwin-specs

["Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> 
>  In message <39473CEB.160EEE63@ece.gatech.edu>you write:
>   > DJ Delorie wrote:
>   > >
>   > > > Mumit/DJ -- any comments?
>   > >
>   > > Mumit is temporarily unavailable (eta mid-month, i.e. soon), but we
>   > > did discuss this patch in cygwin-developers and agreed that we wanted
>   > > that functionality.
>   > >
>   > > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-05/msg00937.html
>   > >
>   > > The intent is to pass -Bstatic and -Bdynamic off to the linker, like
>   > > any other shared-library platform.  For this to work properly, it
>   > > needs to allow for multiple occurrances and preserve the order, so
>   > > that it can affect individual libraries.  I don't know enough about
>   > > gcc to say if this patch does that, but if it does, that's what we
>   > > want.
>   >
>   > Synopsis:
>   > ld can do that; gcc can't (wrt my patched versions of these utilities
>   > for cygwin. However, I believe this statement also applies to other
>   > platforms)
> [ ... ]
> Ok.  Thanks for the info.
> 
> Can you please update this patch so that it applies to the current
> development sources so that we can install it?
> 

Sure - but not until this evening when I get home...

> Thanks,
> jeff