[Zlib-devel] [PATCH] mingw zlib import library name

[Pedro Alves]

Putting both libz.dll.a and libz.a on the same directory
is a bad idea, because then, unless you specify
-static, the linked (I mean, binutils' ld) will always pick libz.dll.a over
libz.a, which would mean a behavior change in a minor release --- people
linking with -lz to always link the static libz (but not link everything
else statically,  otherwise, they'd use -static) will suddenly start
linking in the dll version.

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Pedro Alves
CodeSourcery