#11635: Copy needed dll file for NTL on Cygwin
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Reporter: kcrisman | Owner: tbd
Type: defect | Status: needs_info
Priority: minor | Milestone: sage-4.8
Component: cygwin | Keywords:
Work_issues: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Author: Karl-Dieter Crisman
Merged: | Dependencies:
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Comment(by dimpase):
Replying to [comment:11 kcrisman]:
> Replying to [comment:9 kcrisman]:
> > > > Oh, and no longer 'needs info', because #12104 shows that it's
needed to start Sage.
> > >
> > > Why does one need copies in local/bin ?
> > > And why does one need to copy rather than to create a symbolic link?
>
> Just for posterity (addressing the comments at #12104, perhaps?), here
is the rationale for naming it dll.a, from #9050.
> {{{
> This is so that Cygwin will find the shared library before it finds the
static library; otherwise, there are lots of segfaults in Sage under
Cygwin
> }}}
that means that only in the cases when both static and dynamic libraries
are built, this is needed.
IMHO there are not so many such cases among Sage spkg's.
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