Re: [Mingw-users] library name

[Michael G. <mg...@te...>]

> I was thinking of the scenario wher a user downloads the prebuilt
> binary tarballs, and unpacks those in place of an existing installation.
> Such a user won't be using Makefiles, to perform an upgrade.

That wouldn't be a problem though because of the order in which
ld tries to resolve libnames.

According to ld's info file we have the following order:
     libxxx.dll.a
     xxx.dll.a
     libxxx.a
     cygxxx.dll (*)
     libxxx.dll
     xxx.dll

So even if we have an old installation all that would happen is
we have obsolete files named libxxx.a and current libxxx.dll.a
ld would choose the newer (and correct) version.

Basically it would be a waste of diskspace. But then it seems
pretty simple to create a shellscript to remove all such dublicates.

Best,
Michael
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