The DT_AUXILIARY patch

H . J . Lu hjl@lucon.org
Fri Jul 14 18:31:00 GMT 2000


On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 06:27:34PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> Here is the DT_AUXILIARY patch for the shared libgcc. After some
> experiments, I believe we shouldn't even need libgcc.so under Linux.
> We just set the DT_AUXILIARY to libgcc.so$(libgcc.so-version). We will
> only have /lib/libgcc.so$(libgcc.so-version) which is symlinked to
> /lib/libgcc-3.0.so. /lib/libgcc.so$(libgcc.so-version) is hidden from
> user. Everything is still linked with libgcc.a.
> 

BTW, we just need to make sure everything exported from the shared
libgcc is also exported from libc.so. I think we will be safe then.



H.J.


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