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Re: Versioning mess proved!!!
- To: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>
- Subject: Re: Versioning mess proved!!!
- From: Philip Blundell <pb at futuretv dot com>
- Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 11:43:32 +0100
- cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>, Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>, howarth at fuse dot net, libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, aj at suse dot de
In message <00100212211500.29217@enzo.bigblue.local>, Franz Sirl writes:
>Maybe the hack is elsewhere already? It turns out that zlib is compiled
>without -fpic by default, if compiled with -fpic everything is OK. Can't we
>just refuse to load such broken stuff as shared library on non-x86 platforms?
>And issue a loader warning on x86 and then delete support for this in
>glibc-2.3? I believe a -DENABLE_X86_SHARED_LIB_HACKS would clean up our
>shared lib loader (and probably ld too) from a lot of hacks?
We've had this discussion before. Support for non-PIC shared objects is a
desired feature, not an x86 hack. It works on platforms like ARM and (I
guess) Alpha, and I can't see any reason PowerPC should be different.
p.