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Re: gcc 3.0 and multilibbing
On Mar 2, 2001, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
>>> Why are multilibbed libgcc.so's installed differently from all other
>>> multilibs? That seems odd.
Alexandre> I think the reasons are to avoid using the same SONAME for
Alexandre> incompatible multilibs, and to need a single additional
Alexandre> directory in ld.so.conf.
> I don't understand the second part of this. Won't this only work for
> C programs?
Yep. That's why I suggested we might want to do the same for other
target libraries.
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