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Re: Problematic linking between glibc and shared libgcc
- To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Problematic linking between glibc and shared libgcc
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 23:48:21 -0800
- Cc: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <01021523111501.01075@enzo.bigblue.local> <m3bss38r2r.fsf@otr.mynet.cygnus.com>
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:27:40PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> It's not silly. There are very good reasons for such a setup and it's
> entirely gcc fault. I've pointed this out over and over again in the
> last years, trying to fight this shared libgcc. But of course nobody
> listens.
Oh give me a break. You are hardly a lone voice crying in the
wilderness. We heard you. We listened. We did not agree that
this is sufficient reason not to build a shared libgcc.
> The best solution is to override the decision and not compile libgcc
> as a DSO.
You can do this on your own system of course: --disable-shared.
Don't expect that to ever be the default though. I for one do
not think this is the best solution.
r~