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Re: libc-19980524: unnecessary startup file dependencies on Hurd
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- Subject: Re: libc-19980524: unnecessary startup file dependencies on Hurd
- From: Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 04:35:39 -0400
- Cc: Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>, Mark Kettenis <kettenis@phys.uva.nl>, gord@m-tech.ab.ca, drepper@gnu.org, libc-alpha@cygnus.com, bug-hurd@gnu.org
> The ldd script directly executes a library that includes .interp, and it
> works better than without.
These particular libraries cannot be (meaningfully) executable because
their entry point functions would need to use libc code. However, in the
Hurd, libc.so itself depends on these shared libs and hence it would be a
pain to arrange for them to also depend on it.