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Re: A patch for glibc 2.0/2.1
- To: zack@rabi.columbia.edu (Zack Weinberg)
- Subject: Re: A patch for glibc 2.0/2.1
- From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:10:44 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: libc-hacker@cygnus.com, drepper@cygnus.com
>
> On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 11:42:19 -0800 (PST), H.J. Lu wrote:
> >> >
> >> >Oooops. Here is a patch for glibc 2.0 and 2.1. It will make
> >> >those functions weak extern in libc.so. Ulrich, could you please
> >> >check it in for both glibc 2.0 and 2.1? Thanks.
> >
> >On my second thought, Ulrich, please ignore this patch. We should
> >keep them in libc.so so that noone else has to define them. That
> >means libfoo.so made by
> >
> ># gcc -shared -o libfoo.so foo.cc -fPIC
> >
> >will work regardless if libstdc++.so is loaded or not.
>
> Then you have to disallow compiling libc with gcc 2.8. (I personally think
> this would be a good idea anyway.)
>
Can we add this glibc 2.1? That is we check for gcc 2.8 and disallow it
for glibc 2.1.
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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)