libtool 20030216: problem recognizing import libraries

Fri Mar 7 20:15:00 GMT 2003

On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Teun Burgers wrote:
> Teun Burgers wrote:
> >
> > Charles Wilson wrote:
> >
> > > Now, about your problem: I'm a bit confused, because I do *not* see that
> > > behavior. Please take the attached script, which contains only the new
> > > win32_libid() code -- the only parted changed by the patched
> > > libtool-20030216 -- and run the following tests:
> > >
> > > ./cygwin_libid /usr/lib/libcygwin.a
> > > ./cygwin_libid /usr/lib/w32api/libuser32.a
> > > ./cygwin_libid /usr/lib/w32api/libadvapi32.a
> > > ./cygwin_libid /usr/lib/w32api/libkernel32.a
> > > ./cygwin_libid /usr/lib/w32api/libshell32.a
> > >
> > > And report back...
>> I've found the culprit. I installed the perl LWP module which
> installs a HEAD script that fetches the header of an URL.
> On unix HEAD and head are different but on cygwin having
> both HEAD and head.exe along the path causes a problem...
>> After removing the HEAD script cygwin_libid reports x86 archive import
>> So maybe cygwin_libid should call /usr/bin/head.exe instead
> of just head?
>> Teun

This is a problem with the LWP module. FYI, I've reported this to the
maintainers back in September last year: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg01385.html>
	Igor
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