From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Sokolovsky To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: DLL naming conventions Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 03:36:00 -0000 Message-id: <19558.000830@is.lg.ua> X-SW-Source: 2000-08/msg01128.html Hello cygwin, Existance of several GNU targets based on incompatible underlying libraries brings (or will bring soon) problem of clashes between their components. Mere installing software build with each of them into separate directory and setting PATH to one of the in per-session manner is not flexible since often one piece of software absent in that or another distribution. Of particular importance here is clashing of DLLs which is espicially hard to detect for end users. It would be nice if there were some convention for naming DLLs build for particular target. Cygwin did that for a some time, for example, native builds of Tcl/Tk, etc. used to have 'cyg' prefix. However, latest additions seem not to follow this practise. Will it be possible to re-consider this matter and if it applies, recommend to follow it? More importantly, it can be automatically supported on appropriate level (in libtool). -- Paul Sokolovsky, IT Specialist http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=11135 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com