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Re: PIC and libiberty
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- To: jimb at redhat dot com
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 21:47:17 -0500
- Subject: Re: PIC and libiberty
- References: <vt26519mupc.fsf@zenia.home>
> However, I didn't find a rationale for this:
>
> 2004-12-25 David Edelsohn <edelsohn@gnu.org>
>
> Revert 2004-12-08 Makefile changes.
That's the change that caused the problems H.J. was trying
to fix.
> and I didn't see a rationale for why H.J.'s original patch wasn't
> then acceptable to commit.
When we reverted, the process has to start again. This time, though,
we'd need one patch that fixed David's problem that did not also cause
the other problems, either by solving David's problem differently or
by also patching other places. That new/combined patch would have to
go through the testing and review process, and given that gcc is
[hopefully] close to branching, it's unlikely anyone wants to attempt
that at this moment.
At this point libiberty should be where it has long been wrt pic
libraries, so if SID can't link it, that should have been a problem
for a long time now. Have you tried building SID from a timestamp
before all those changes?