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

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message <39243786.9DF5048D@ece.gatech.edu>you write:
  > Any comments on this patch? Accept or reject? (I'm not familiar with the
  > protocol on this list or how quickly patches are handled/responded to,
  > so I'm unsure if the lack of response is normal, or means I did
  > something wrong...)
I don't remember ever seeing the patch noted below.  It's certainly possible
I just missed it.  Yup.  There it is in the archives from about a month ago.

Mumit/DJ -- any comments?

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-05/msg00937.html

  > --Chuck
  > 
  > "Charles S. Wilson" wrote:
  > > 
  > > Since ld is capable of linking directly to dll's without an importlib,
  > > these patches enable those features to be used by gcc more conveniently
  > > on the cygwin platform. Patch pasted in both plaintext and
  > > gzip/uuencoded format below.
  > > 
  > > Aside: binutils recently accepted a patch that makes 'ld.exe -Bdynamic'
  > > hunt for .dll's in preference to .a's for linking (for i386pe). So, with
  > > this patch to gcc, on the cygwin platform, gcc will link to dll's by
  > > default, unless the -static option is given. This brings cygwin-gcc more
  > > in line with most other platforms.
  > > 
  > > CHANGELOG:
  > > 
  > >         * gcc/config/i386/cygwin.h: change link spec to
  > >         pass -Bstatic or -Bdynamic to ld as appropriate
  > >         * gcc/collect2.c: add "dll" to the list of possible
  > >         library extensions
  > >
  >