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Re: rfc: new libgcc build mechanism


On May  9, 2000, "John David Anglin" <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> wrote:

> This may be a significant trick since you will have to figure out how
> to make libtool use the recently built compiler.

It would probably be reasonable to have libgcc in a separate
directory, and have configure run in it only after stage1 gcc is
built.

> When building this way, the various gcc apps built at stage2 link
> with the shared libgcc built at stage1, etc.  There is an issue as
> to how to relink these apps with an installed version of libgcc when
> they are installed since under hpux there is no way to hardcode a
> shared library path into an executable except by relinking.

IIUC, we're not going to link executables with the shared libgcc, only
shared libraries.

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