Re: libc-19980524: unnecessary startup file dependencies on Hurd

[Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>]

On Tue, 26 May 1998 13:09:47 -0400, Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG wrote:
>
>   Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 10:08:47 -0400
>   From: Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
>
>   - Move libmachuser and libhurduser to the others pass.  mach and hurd get
>   built before anything else, so the full C library should still be available
>   by the time we need to link programs.
>
>That's fine, but the generated files in the hurd and mach subdirs do
>have to get made before anything else, because they generate header
>files used by nearly every other compile in libc.

I think this will still happen on the 'make lib' pass; however

>   - Do the shared libraries other than libc really need an .interp section? 
>   They aren't executable.  You could just take the dependency out and delete
>   the reference in link-extra-lib.  I think the dependency is in extra-lib.mk
>.
>
>libhurduser and libmachuser don't need an .interp section for any
>reason I can think of.

Then this is a simpler solution.

zw