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Re: gcc 3.0 and multilibbing


On Feb 26, 2001, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:

> Why are multilibbed libgcc.so's installed differently from all other
> multilibs?  That seems odd.

I think the reasons are to avoid using the same SONAME for
incompatible multilibs, and to need a single additional directory in
ld.so.conf.  I suppose we could do similarly for all GCC-related
libraries on multilibbed platforms in which we create shared
libraries.  It would require a little bit of abuse from libtool's
-release flag (in which we'd now pass the multilib name, to get it
encoded in the library SONAME), but it can be done.

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