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Re: Problematic linking between glibc and shared libgcc
- To: dewar at gnat dot com
- Subject: Re: Problematic linking between glibc and shared libgcc
- From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at valinux dot com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 08:32:31 -0800
- Cc: Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com, drepper at cygnus dot com,gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, kukuk at suse dot de, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com,rth at redhat dot com
- References: <20010218155555.22ADFF289B@nile.gnat.com>
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 10:55:55AM -0500, dewar@gnat.com wrote:
> <<I think the only people wishing a shared libgcc are the gcc developer
> itself and nobody else. I don't know any person outside the gcc project
> who likes this, specially people working on large projects and
> distributions hate it.
> >>
>
> That's really odd. In the GNAT world, we have only recently started to
> build shared runtime libraries, in some cases now as the default, and
> we are doing it because of demand by some of our users working on
> large projects.
The shared runtime libraries are ok. Glibc is one of them. The problem
is the current scheme for shared libgcc. It is a nightmare for Linux
vendors.
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H.J. Lu (hjl@valinux.com)