Re: glibc 2.1 and gabi

[Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>]

> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:57:29 -0700
> From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
> Cc: libc-hacker@sourceware.cygnus.com, binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com,
>         ian@zembu.com, nick@lucon.org

> glibc 2.2 is ok. The problem is the existing glibc 2.1 systems. The
> binaries created by the new linker under glibc 2.1 may not run due
> to those new dtags. I just sent in a new patch which turns off the
> new dtag by default so that the linker can create the working binaries
> under glibc 2.1.

OK.  That makes sense.

Ideally, you would want to only add the new tags when they make a
difference to how the executable should be treated.  I don't know what
the new tags do so I don't know if this is possible.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>