mingw32-pango on EL-5 build problem

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Mar 10 23:38:34 UTC 2009


Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/logs/fedora-5-epel/1672-mingw32-pango-1.23.0-2.el5/noarch/build.log
> 
> Why on earth does it decide to start naming the stub files *.lib?

It looks like these are not import libs at all, but symlinks to the DLL (which
MinGW can link directly). This is a very strange convention. No idea why it
isn't using standard import libs.

        Kevin Kofler




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