vismain failure

H . J . Lu hjl@lucon.org
Tue Jul 25 12:35:00 GMT 2000


On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:32:53PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>    Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:36:49 -0700
>    From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
> 
>    Glibc doesn't use the ELF visibility directly. But it uses it
>    indirectly via __dso_handle in crtbegin.o/crtend.o. That is if gcc
>    is built by the binutils with the ELF visibility support, glibc will
>     use it:
> 
> This happens only if you're using GCC snapshots.  IMHO the GCC folks
> shouldn't make use of the ELF visibility stuff if the installed
> binutils don't correctly support it.  I'm sure they will take care of
> it in the official 3.0 release.  On the glibc side, we shouldn't force
> people to upgrade their binutils if it's not strictly necessary.  GCC
> 2.95.2 together with binutils 2.10 works fine for compiling glibc,

I cannot get gcc 2.95.2 to compile glibc 2.2 from CVS. I have to use
the gcc snapshot. I have no choice.


H.J.


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