cygwin 1.5.1 libc.a link problem

Wed Aug 6 16:31:00 GMT 2003

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:10:15AM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:58:51PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 04:20:15PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> >On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 03:09:57PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
>> >>While attempting to rebuild procmail against Cygwin 1.5.1, I believe I
>> >>have found a problem with libc.a that interferes with building 64-bit
>> >>apps.
>> >>
>> >>If one builds the attached test program without -lc, we get the
>> >>following:
>> >>
>> >> $ gcc -o stat stat.c
>> >> $ objdump -p stat.exe | fgrep stat
>> >> 6100 510 _stat64
>> >>
>> >>But, if one builds it with -lc, we get the following:
>> >>
>> >> $ gcc -o stat stat.c -lc
>> >> $ objdump -p stat.exe | fgrep stat
>> >> 6130 945 stat
>> >
>> >Ok. Interesting. I know what the problem is. Should be "easy" to fix.
>> >
>> >Sounds like we need a 1.5.2.
>>>> Oh yeah. That was wicked easy.
>>>> Can someone confirm or deny that the latest snapshot solves this
>> problem?
>Unless I did something wrong, I guess I'll have to deny it..
>I installed the complete snapshot (cygwin-inst) and get the same
>results as before.

I assume that you must not have correctly replaced your copy of
/lib/libc.a:
 % ls -l libc.a
 ls -l libc.a
 -rwxrwxrwx 1 root cgf 741756 Aug 5 23:29 libc.a
 % sum libc.a
 31407 725
cgf
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