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* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Can we get in the position that both might be used ("lib" in older,
> already installed libs, "ar" for a newer package the user is about
> to link)? I believe not, but need to check so.
I did a test run with CC=cl AR=ar (didn't keep the output, sorry),
and Microsoft link
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:48:09PM CEST:
>
> These patch actually do not work, except by accident, as they set
> postdeps before _LT_SYS_HIDDEN_LIBDEPS is called (and thus potentially
> overwritten).
>
> Since the system-dependent output_verbose_link_cmd needs to be set
>
