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Re: [MiNT] mintlib release

On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 11:13 +0200, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> Alan Hourihane wrote:
> >> - regarding libsocket into libc integration: I think it's a good idea
> >>    to keep a symbolic link from libsocket.a to libc.a for a while.
> >>    Any suggestions or comments about this?
> > 
> > No. I don't think this is necessary as it will find all symbols in libc
> > anyway.
> 
> Unfortunately, if libsocket.a does not exist (even useless), an existing 
> gcc command line using -lsocket will fail:
> ld: cannot find -lsocket

An empty libsocket.a is the alternative. But I'd rather fix the
applications that try and look up libsocket.a now.

Alan.