#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 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
> > }}}
>
> IMHO, this is, at best, a bad hack. In principle, *.dll.a files are
import libraries for *.dll libaries,
> used by the linker to like against *.dll (i.e. dynamic libraries).
>
Well, as I said in comment:9, I would ''more'' than happy to have someone
who actually knows what they are talking about to fix this and post a
different spkg :) especially if it ended up fixing #9167. Go for it!
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