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Hmm... I botch a Cygwin Python release and I get
assigned a 4 month old Distutils bug. Coincidence
or punishment? :,)

> Is this still a problem?

I don't know.

> Jason, do you have any comments?

This problem seems more like a Distutils issue
than a Cygwin one.  Please assign to a Distutils
developer (e.g., Rene).  Since I'm not familiar
with the issues, I'm afraid that if I try to fix
this problem I may cause another one...

Additionally, I cannot reproduce the problem on my
Linux box unless I write a shell script to
simulate the behavior of Pearu's ld -v...