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

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

 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)
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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?

Thanks,
jeff