GCC vs GLIBC: why this stance, Drepper ?!?

[H . J . Lu]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:10:52PM +0200, Paolo Carlini wrote:
> 
> With difficulties I'm trying to follow the issues discusses in these threads...
> 
> I would try to summarize something:
> 1- There is a ("political", I would say) configuration/install issue which may
> involve (not necessarily, however) GCC (that discussed mostly by H.J. Lu).
> 2- There is a mostly unrelated ("technical", I would call it) compile-time issue
> which involves mostly GLIBC (that discussed above by Jakub Jelinek).

More or less, yes. But I won't call the first one "political" :-).
To me and maybe some glibc developers, it is "technical".

> 
> Now I'm wondering if those two could be dealt with separately.

If there is no solution for #1, some glibc developers may feel
there is no point to pursue #2. Without #1, you may not use gcc
3.0 to compile glibc safely. 


H.J.